Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of FluellenSamuel Bagster, in the Strand., 1812 - 448 Seiten |
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... reflection , active , conscious , susceptible of delight , and provident of futurity , it claims to itself a duration , when the most splendid objects around us shall be destroyed . Ob- serve the vigilance of the senses in collecting ...
... reflection , active , conscious , susceptible of delight , and provident of futurity , it claims to itself a duration , when the most splendid objects around us shall be destroyed . Ob- serve the vigilance of the senses in collecting ...
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... ma- terials of this study are commonly gathered from reflection on our own feelings , or from observations on the conduct of others . Each of these methods is exposed to difficulty , and consequently INTRODUCTION . 11.
... ma- terials of this study are commonly gathered from reflection on our own feelings , or from observations on the conduct of others . Each of these methods is exposed to difficulty , and consequently INTRODUCTION . 11.
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... and endure no rivals in their authority . The moment reflection , or any foreign or opposing principle , begins to operate , they are either exceedingly ex- asperated , agitating the mind , and leaving it no INTRODUCTION . 13.
... and endure no rivals in their authority . The moment reflection , or any foreign or opposing principle , begins to operate , they are either exceedingly ex- asperated , agitating the mind , and leaving it no INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... reflecting on our own minds , or by attending to the con- duct of others , are liable to difficulty , and consequently to error ; we should embrace every assistance that may facilitate and im- prove them . Were it possible , during the ...
... reflecting on our own minds , or by attending to the con- duct of others , are liable to difficulty , and consequently to error ; we should embrace every assistance that may facilitate and im- prove them . Were it possible , during the ...
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... reflecting on these latent and unexerted principles , augmented and promoted by imagination , we may discover many new tints , and un- common features . Now , that class of po- etical writers that excel by imitating the passions , might ...
... reflecting on these latent and unexerted principles , augmented and promoted by imagination , we may discover many new tints , and un- common features . Now , that class of po- etical writers that excel by imitating the passions , might ...
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affection agitated agreeable Alcibiades ambition amiable amusement appear appetites arise attention become beneficence cerning character circumstances Claudius conduct consequence Cordelia delight delineation desire dexterity disappointment discernment display dispositions dramatic emotion endeavours esteem excellent excite exhibited expresses exquisite external Falstaff fancy father fear feelings flattered Fluellen give gratified guilt Hamlet hath heart Hecuba honour human nature humour Iachimo illustrated imagination imitation Imogen indignation indulgence influence ingra inhuman invention Jaques kind King King Lear Laertes Lear less Lord Macbeth mankind manner melancholy ment merit mind misanthropy moral never object observe occasion Olorus opinion pain passion persons pleasure poet poetical justice possess Prince principles proceed propriety qualities racter reflection renders representation resentment Richard scene seems sense sensibility sentiments Shakespeare shew sion Sir John Falstaff situation sorrow soul spirit suffers temper thee things thou Timon Timon of Athens tion tragedy tural uncon violent virtue
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Seite 46 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 109 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops...
Seite 347 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Seite 22 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't!
Seite 59 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Seite 22 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God 1 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Seite 51 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Seite 22 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Seite 111 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Seite 23 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.