Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1912 - 275 pages |
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Page xix
... beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by the blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor reflected them . The shifting shapes of fancy ...
... beauty was a fault ; for it appeared to him like an excrescence ; and his imagination was dazzled by the blaze of light . His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius , nor reflected them . The shifting shapes of fancy ...
Page xxi
... beauty of the passages here referred to . A stately common - place , such as Congreve's descrip- tion of a ruin in the Mourning Bride , would have answered Johnson's purpose just as well , or better than the first ; and an ...
... beauty of the passages here referred to . A stately common - place , such as Congreve's descrip- tion of a ruin in the Mourning Bride , would have answered Johnson's purpose just as well , or better than the first ; and an ...
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... beauty is excited with as little consciousness as possible on her part . There are two delicious descriptions given of her , one when she is asleep , and one when she is supposed dead . Arviragus thus addresses her- " With fairest ...
... beauty is excited with as little consciousness as possible on her part . There are two delicious descriptions given of her , one when she is asleep , and one when she is supposed dead . Arviragus thus addresses her- " With fairest ...
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... beauty of the character of Duncan , which excites the respect and pity even of his murderers , has been often pointed out . It forms a picture of itself . An instance of the author's power of giving a striking effect to a common ...
... beauty of the character of Duncan , which excites the respect and pity even of his murderers , has been often pointed out . It forms a picture of itself . An instance of the author's power of giving a striking effect to a common ...
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... beauty and external graces are only indirectly glanced at : we see " her visage in her mind " ; her character everywhere predominates over her person . " A maiden never bold : Of spirit so still and quiet , that her motion Blush'd at ...
... beauty and external graces are only indirectly glanced at : we see " her visage in her mind " ; her character everywhere predominates over her person . " A maiden never bold : Of spirit so still and quiet , that her motion Blush'd at ...
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