Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and GeniusH. Colburn, 1828 - 494 pages |
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... Hamlet , and Lear . - BLACK WOOD'S EDIN- BURGH MAGAZINE . 93 On the Character and Feelings of Shakspeare . - FREDERICK SCHLEGEL . · 105 On the Influence of Shakspeare over the Human Mind.— RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW . 110 • On Shakspeare ...
... Hamlet , and Lear . - BLACK WOOD'S EDIN- BURGH MAGAZINE . 93 On the Character and Feelings of Shakspeare . - FREDERICK SCHLEGEL . · 105 On the Influence of Shakspeare over the Human Mind.— RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW . 110 • On Shakspeare ...
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... Hamlet.- MACKENZIE . • 370 Criticism on the Character and Tragedy of Hamlet con- cluded . - MACKENZIE . 381 Observations on the Tragedy of Hamlet . - ANONYMOUS . 389 A Delineation of Shakspeare's Characters of Macbeth and Richard ...
... Hamlet.- MACKENZIE . • 370 Criticism on the Character and Tragedy of Hamlet con- cluded . - MACKENZIE . 381 Observations on the Tragedy of Hamlet . - ANONYMOUS . 389 A Delineation of Shakspeare's Characters of Macbeth and Richard ...
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... Hamlet and As -You Like It . A Specimen of a new Edition of Shakspeare . " London : John Murray . The principle on which the work is constructed is thus explained by the editor : " The first folio is made the groundwork of the proposed ...
... Hamlet and As -You Like It . A Specimen of a new Edition of Shakspeare . " London : John Murray . The principle on which the work is constructed is thus explained by the editor : " The first folio is made the groundwork of the proposed ...
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... Hamlet , Jaques , Imogen , Richard the Third , Falstaff , King Lear , Timon of Athens , and Fluellen . To which are added , " Essays on Shakspeare's Imitation of Female Characters ; " " On the Faults of Shakspeare ; " " On the chief ...
... Hamlet , Jaques , Imogen , Richard the Third , Falstaff , King Lear , Timon of Athens , and Fluellen . To which are added , " Essays on Shakspeare's Imitation of Female Characters ; " " On the Faults of Shakspeare ; " " On the chief ...
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... Hamlet , it is productive of equal admiration . Action produces one mode of excellence , and inaction another : the chronicle , the novel , or the ballad ; the king or the beggar ; the hero , the madman , the sot or the fool ; it is all ...
... Hamlet , it is productive of equal admiration . Action produces one mode of excellence , and inaction another : the chronicle , the novel , or the ballad ; the king or the beggar ; the hero , the madman , the sot or the fool ; it is all ...
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Page 468 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 406 - 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...
Page 300 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 181 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 187 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 315 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Page 302 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 169 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 348 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 211 - What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...