Studies of Shakespeare: In the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, with Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those PlaysLongman Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847 - 384 pages |
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... hero of Shakespearian tragedy . ― But in the same proportion as this physical condition of our national theatres has been fa- vourable and encouraging to vulgar exaggera- tion in the performer , has it been depressing to any true and ...
... hero of Shakespearian tragedy . ― But in the same proportion as this physical condition of our national theatres has been fa- vourable and encouraging to vulgar exaggera- tion in the performer , has it been depressing to any true and ...
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... hero , Leonatus Posthumus , which form the nucleus of the story . It is the more indispensable to do this , because a critic of so much authority as Hazlitt has told his readers , in speaking of Imogen , that " Posthumus is only ...
... hero , Leonatus Posthumus , which form the nucleus of the story . It is the more indispensable to do this , because a critic of so much authority as Hazlitt has told his readers , in speaking of Imogen , that " Posthumus is only ...
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... those volcanic heavings of a noble heart , our full con- ception of which can alone make us tolerate the purpose of sanguinary vengeance which is to be formed and pursued by his hero . That Elysian pros- 62 CHARACTERS IN ' CYMBELINE . '
... those volcanic heavings of a noble heart , our full con- ception of which can alone make us tolerate the purpose of sanguinary vengeance which is to be formed and pursued by his hero . That Elysian pros- 62 CHARACTERS IN ' CYMBELINE . '
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... hero . That Elysian pros- pect of life which had opened to his view through the rich and roseate light of a noble and a happy love , is , by one dread thunderburst , darkened and devast- ated . By the force of contrast , the hell that ...
... hero . That Elysian pros- pect of life which had opened to his view through the rich and roseate light of a noble and a happy love , is , by one dread thunderburst , darkened and devast- ated . By the force of contrast , the hell that ...
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... hero is much more unfortunate than criminal , and to relieve our feelings by an- nouncing an approaching deliverance from adversity , -at the same time that curiosity is kept alive by the mysterious terms in which the prediction is made ...
... hero is much more unfortunate than criminal , and to relieve our feelings by an- nouncing an approaching deliverance from adversity , -at the same time that curiosity is kept alive by the mysterious terms in which the prediction is made ...
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Page 313 - Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Page 336 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 114 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 362 - Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous ; And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Page 112 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 19 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Page 310 - What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Page 310 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 134 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 125 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.