Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and GoetheChapman, 1846 - 554 pages |
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... tragic , comic , and historic drama ; or , what is the same , to shew that a true ęsthetical notion was the basis of each actual manifestation . Lastly , I believed that I should be able to approach more nearly to the secret of the ...
... tragic , comic , and historic drama ; or , what is the same , to shew that a true ęsthetical notion was the basis of each actual manifestation . Lastly , I believed that I should be able to approach more nearly to the secret of the ...
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... tragic sublimity . Moreover , the stronger nerves of a people much more familiar than the present age with scenes of suffering of every kind , and hardened by the many criminal processes , and all the horrors of the Star Chamber , and ...
... tragic sublimity . Moreover , the stronger nerves of a people much more familiar than the present age with scenes of suffering of every kind , and hardened by the many criminal processes , and all the horrors of the Star Chamber , and ...
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... Tragic and the Comic . On the other hand , the wall of separation between the two inevitably fell as soon as in obedience to the christian view the limits between necessity and freedom were dissolved , and the two merged into each other ...
... Tragic and the Comic . On the other hand , the wall of separation between the two inevitably fell as soon as in obedience to the christian view the limits between necessity and freedom were dissolved , and the two merged into each other ...
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... tragic destiny . It is not that Edward has his favourites , but he makes his capriciously chosen favourites his ministers of state and great nobles , that all is given up to them , and that he mixes up his individual humours with his ...
... tragic destiny . It is not that Edward has his favourites , but he makes his capriciously chosen favourites his ministers of state and great nobles , that all is given up to them , and that he mixes up his individual humours with his ...
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... tragic Nemesis . Thus the ground - idea is clearly and distinctly mir- rored in all the principal parts of the whole ; and this per- vading identity of thought constitutes the principal merit of the piece , which , in other respects ...
... tragic Nemesis . Thus the ground - idea is clearly and distinctly mir- rored in all the principal parts of the whole ; and this per- vading identity of thought constitutes the principal merit of the piece , which , in other respects ...
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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.