Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 1Baker and Scribner, 1848 - Dramatists, English |
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Page v
... interest , that readers should not expect from me what I trust I am as far from pretending as from being able to give . He who is always striving to utter himself , will of course be original enough : but he who wishes to teach , will ...
... interest , that readers should not expect from me what I trust I am as far from pretending as from being able to give . He who is always striving to utter himself , will of course be original enough : but he who wishes to teach , will ...
Page vii
... interests of life , it would not be worth any man's while to study , much less , to interpret them . Lit- erature , it can hardly be too often said , is good for nothing , nay worse than nothing , unless it be kept subordinate to ...
... interests of life , it would not be worth any man's while to study , much less , to interpret them . Lit- erature , it can hardly be too often said , is good for nothing , nay worse than nothing , unless it be kept subordinate to ...
Page viii
... interest , else criticism were an absurdity ; and if men are to develope or recover the faculties they want , it must be in the exercise of those they have which explains my purpose in writing these lectures . Confident that if people ...
... interest , else criticism were an absurdity ; and if men are to develope or recover the faculties they want , it must be in the exercise of those they have which explains my purpose in writing these lectures . Confident that if people ...
Page ix
... interest of novelty to any notions so old and true that they are in danger of being forgotten , I shall feel that the four years mostly spent on these lectures have not been thrown away . Respectfully dedicating the work , for better or ...
... interest of novelty to any notions so old and true that they are in danger of being forgotten , I shall feel that the four years mostly spent on these lectures have not been thrown away . Respectfully dedicating the work , for better or ...
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... interest them in the works of one who , I think , has given me more pleasure and more profit than all my other studies put together . But before I enter upon the subject , it seems neces- sary that I should say something of the man ...
... interest them in the works of one who , I think , has given me more pleasure and more profit than all my other studies put together . But before I enter upon the subject , it seems neces- sary that I should say something of the man ...
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Page 223 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 36 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : » Referring to the obsequies for the dead.
Page 223 - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd ; Love's feeling is more soft and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled* snails...
Page 38 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 30 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 35 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 317 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 62 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 31 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play.
Page 13 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions...