Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and GoetheChapman, 1846 - 554 pages |
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... already fallen to the students and children of the choir , but now the entire representation was aban- doned to them . Generally , however , the taste for them had been declining since the beginning of the sixteenth century ; the exhi ...
... already fallen to the students and children of the choir , but now the entire representation was aban- doned to them . Generally , however , the taste for them had been declining since the beginning of the sixteenth century ; the exhi ...
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... already abandoned their epic colouring and purely religious tendency . What in the case of Radcliffe we can only conjecture , is positively established by a drama printed in 1568 , but which in all probability had previously been acted ...
... already abandoned their epic colouring and purely religious tendency . What in the case of Radcliffe we can only conjecture , is positively established by a drama printed in 1568 , but which in all probability had previously been acted ...
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... already justly re- . marked , a stiff and lifeless composition , in which every incident of the plot is preceded by long and tedious deliberations , and fol- C ' lowed by lengthy narratives , and , being without anything ENGLISH DRAMA ...
... already justly re- . marked , a stiff and lifeless composition , in which every incident of the plot is preceded by long and tedious deliberations , and fol- C ' lowed by lengthy narratives , and , being without anything ENGLISH DRAMA ...
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... already established in the character and shape of the national Drama . Their establish- ment was no little advantage to him , since , in spite of his great genius and powerful talents , his authority would have been insuffi- cient for ...
... already established in the character and shape of the national Drama . Their establish- ment was no little advantage to him , since , in spite of his great genius and powerful talents , his authority would have been insuffi- cient for ...
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... already mentioned , the father of Shakspeare's friend , the famous Richard Burbage , whose wonderful acting in the characters of Hamlet , Lear , and Othello , was so celebrated ) obtained the first royal letters patent , and therewith ...
... already mentioned , the father of Shakspeare's friend , the famous Richard Burbage , whose wonderful acting in the characters of Hamlet , Lear , and Othello , was so celebrated ) obtained the first royal letters patent , and therewith ...
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Accordingly action ęsthetical already ancient appears artistic beauty Ben Jonson Calderon caprice character Christian circumstances Collier comedy comic view composition consequently Coriolanus critics Cymbeline death divine doubt Drake earthly English epical evil exhibited existence external fact Falstaff fancy feeling fundamental idea genius Gentlemen of Verona genuine Goethe Goethe's grace ground-idea Hamlet hand Henry the Sixth historical drama honour human Humanum Genus humour inmost intrinsic Jonson Julius Cęsar justice King language Lastly latter less Locrine lyrical Macbeth Malone merely mind moral nature necessity nevertheless noble objective organic Othello outward passion Pericles personages piece play poem poesy poet poetical poetry possess present Prince principle profound racter reign Romeo Romeo and Juliet satire scene Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's sonnets spirit subjective thought Tieck tion Titus Andronicus tragedy tragic Troilus and Cressida true truth unity view of things virtue weakness whole Winter's Tale
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Page 94 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave. When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 311 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 114 - Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride...
Page 94 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 113 - ... prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except. Past cure I am, now reason is past care, And...
Page 312 - His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep : who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 425 - Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that, with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie.
Page 306 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 114 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Page 306 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.