Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... character per- haps very little different , from the ancient Mysteries , were performed upon the London stage at a period when classical histories , romantic legends , and comedies of intrigue , attracted numerous audiences both in the ...
... character per- haps very little different , from the ancient Mysteries , were performed upon the London stage at a period when classical histories , romantic legends , and comedies of intrigue , attracted numerous audiences both in the ...
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... characters of Locrine ' are moved to of books . In Shakspere , high poetry is the most natural language of passion . It be- longs to the state of excitement in which the character is placed ; it harmonizes with the excited state of the ...
... characters of Locrine ' are moved to of books . In Shakspere , high poetry is the most natural language of passion . It be- longs to the state of excitement in which the character is placed ; it harmonizes with the excited state of the ...
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... character of the man is not unaptly represented in these productions . They exhibit great pomp and force of language ; passages which de- generate into pure bombast from their am- bitious attempts to display the power of words ; slight ...
... character of the man is not unaptly represented in these productions . They exhibit great pomp and force of language ; passages which de- generate into pure bombast from their am- bitious attempts to display the power of words ; slight ...
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... character is not all there , -very far from it . We have little of the thought- ful philosophy , of the morbid feeelings , of Hamlet . But let us imagine an earlier sketch , where that wonderful creation of Hamlet's character may have ...
... character is not all there , -very far from it . We have little of the thought- ful philosophy , of the morbid feeelings , of Hamlet . But let us imagine an earlier sketch , where that wonderful creation of Hamlet's character may have ...
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... character ( for Marina is no more than the common form of female virtue , such as all the dramatists of that age could draw ) , and a general feebleness of the tragedy as a whole , I should not be- lieve the structure to have been ...
... character ( for Marina is no more than the common form of female virtue , such as all the dramatists of that age could draw ) , and a general feebleness of the tragedy as a whole , I should not be- lieve the structure to have been ...
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