 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimensions, but in intellectual ; the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano — they are storms turning...to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast richesj It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid hare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to (he bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they arc storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, withall its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This rase of flesh and blood seems too... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual; the explosions of his passions are terrible as a volcano: they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that rich sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is bis mind which is laid bare. This care of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporeal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought... | |
 | 1822 - 628 pages
...hearts with pity, while Lear fills the imagination to aching. " The explosions of his passion," as Mr. Lamb has written in an excellent criticism, " are...its vast riches." Such a scene wanted relief, and Shakespear, we may rely upon it, gives us the best. But it is acted otherwise, — no, it is Tate that... | |
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The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. 
