Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and GeniusH. Colburn, 1828 - 494 pages |
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... he needs no selection ; he converts every thing into excellence ; nothing is too great , nothing is too base . Is a character efficient like Richard , it is every thing we can wish ; is it 40 MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE .
... he needs no selection ; he converts every thing into excellence ; nothing is too great , nothing is too base . Is a character efficient like Richard , it is every thing we can wish ; is it 40 MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE .
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... 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 one ; -nothing is worse , nothing is better : the same genius pervades and ...
... 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 one ; -nothing is worse , nothing is better : the same genius pervades and ...
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... excellence ! ( might he say , ) not to me be imputed the insolence of fools . The bards of Greece were confined within the narrow circle of the chorus , and hence they found themselves con- strained to practise , for the most part , the ...
... excellence ! ( might he say , ) not to me be imputed the insolence of fools . The bards of Greece were confined within the narrow circle of the chorus , and hence they found themselves con- strained to practise , for the most part , the ...
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... who , in attempting to gift the poet with undeviating excellence in the mechanism and construction of all his plots , have as- suredly gone rather too far . No. III . ON THE GENIUS OF SHAKSPEARE , AND 92 MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE .
... who , in attempting to gift the poet with undeviating excellence in the mechanism and construction of all his plots , have as- suredly gone rather too far . No. III . ON THE GENIUS OF SHAKSPEARE , AND 92 MEMORIALS OF SHAKSPEARE .
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... excellence , and a few are distinguished above all the rest . Perhaps the four that may be named , as those which have been to the popular feeling of his countrymen the principal plays of their great dra- matist , and which would be ...
... excellence , and a few are distinguished above all the rest . Perhaps the four that may be named , as those which have been to the popular feeling of his countrymen the principal plays of their great dra- matist , and which would be ...
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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...