 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...description overcharged : . ....'' r . .,, . " Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the^trst motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection." Fortune, which delights to smile on daring deeds, at length brought a circumstance to my knowledge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...wasted fourteen days. [Knocks within. Bru. Ta good. Go to the gate ; Somebody knocks. [Ertt Lucias. Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Re-enter Lucius. Luc. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. Bru. Is he alone... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...unaccompamed with musical instruments. — Jlddistm. Dccxcvm. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is, Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Shakspeare. DCCXCIX. Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with every... | |
 | Philip Wentworth Buckham - Greek drama - 1830 - 628 pages
...represented, and what he has described in the following lines : Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. But why is the practice of the Greek and of the Romantic Poets so different in respect of their treatment... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...days/ [AW* wife*. /'••'. 'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks. [ A".nf I,t4 us. Since Caasius ou uf an insurrection.* one of hie cnrliest comments on Shu topea re, i „_ to Concanen, when, in league... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott - England - 1831 - 520 pages
...distracting anxiety so nobly described by Shakspeare — Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Though the violence of his passion had made him eagerly embrace the first hint of this design, especially... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Poets, English - 1832 - 328 pages
...our British Homer : ' Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the Int'rim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream ; The Genius...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection/ Mr. Addison has thus imitated it : — ' O think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...presumes that he would not put his purpose in execution. t " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection." £ These are the considerations on which legislators act, when mankind »re concerned : but when the... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1833 - 476 pages
...painted, and what he has described in the following lines: Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. But why are the Greek and romantic poets so different in their* practice with respect to place and... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 494 pages
...and so changed in behaviour, as to give his wife reason to suspect the cause of his disquietude : " Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection." J. Cecsar, Act ii. Sc. 1. The same contest between conscience and the lower propensities, is, as I... | |
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I have not slept Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers... 
