Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and GoetheChapman, 1846 - 554 pages |
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... present work had been printed : it does however confirm what I have advanced concerning these first beginnings of dramatic art . But it is to Payne Collier that Shakspeare and the history of the English drama is most largely indebted ...
... present work had been printed : it does however confirm what I have advanced concerning these first beginnings of dramatic art . But it is to Payne Collier that Shakspeare and the history of the English drama is most largely indebted ...
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... present work seems to me calculated to meet a want in our present German literature . It proposes to make the scientific world of Germany acquainted with the results of the historical researches of Englishmen , and also to exhibit in ...
... present work seems to me calculated to meet a want in our present German literature . It proposes to make the scientific world of Germany acquainted with the results of the historical researches of Englishmen , and also to exhibit in ...
Page xi
... present , and the future . For this end , it was indispensably necessary for me to determine what was Shakspeare's own conception of the essence of the tragic , comic , and historic drama ; or , what is the same , to shew that a true ...
... present , and the future . For this end , it was indispensably necessary for me to determine what was Shakspeare's own conception of the essence of the tragic , comic , and historic drama ; or , what is the same , to shew that a true ...
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... present occasion , but on many previous ones , he has hastened to supply my wants from the Royal Library at Berlin . H. ULRICI . Halle , Jan. 1839 . CONTENTS . I. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH xii AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
... present occasion , but on many previous ones , he has hastened to supply my wants from the Royal Library at Berlin . H. ULRICI . Halle , Jan. 1839 . CONTENTS . I. SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH xii AUTHOR'S PREFACE .
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... present , and comprehend at once in its ideal presence all and every period . But , at the same time , the essence of art demanded that the subject - matter of exhibition should be of universal application and interest . In order to ...
... present , and comprehend at once in its ideal presence all and every period . But , at the same time , the essence of art demanded that the subject - matter of exhibition should be of universal application and interest . In order to ...
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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.