... nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities,... The Monthly Review - Seite 1011842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1824 - 456 Seiten
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 Seiten
...have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils; is...thoughts; yet still without recovering his peace of mind." CHAPTER XIV. t SEVERAL people entering interrupted the discussion. They were musical dilettanti, who... | |
| R. B. Hardy - 1834 - 142 Seiten
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| 1835 - 724 Seiten
...other characters. In his fine critique upon this play, he remarks, " To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...to mark the characters of Lear, Romeo, Othello and Macheth. The character in Shakspeare, which appears in some points to approach nearest to the subjects... | |
| 1835 - 1022 Seiten
...Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He turns, and winds, and torments himself: he advances and recoils,...: yet still without recovering his peace of mind." This is finely thought and imagined, but it gives too favourable an impression of Hamlet's character,... | |
| Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 Seiten
...have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds and turns and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'* P. 51,1.3. One like a meteor—Nations gazed, admired. Byron. P. 53, 1. 4. Each gentle verse that Pope... | |
| Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 456 Seiten
...other characters. In his fine critique upon this play he remarks, " To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...Lear, Romeo, Othello, and Macbeth. The character in Shakspeare, which appears in some points to approach nearest to the subjects of ancient drama, is Lady... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 788 Seiten
...have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...still without recovering his peace of mind.'" There is nothing so good as this in any of our own commentators — nothing at once so poetical, so feeling,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 Seiten
...have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'" The players, with our hero at their head, now travel across the country, rehearsing, lecturing, squabbling,... | |
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