Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1912 - 275 pages |
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Page xiv
... genius , or the same philosophical acuteness in pointing out his characteristic excellences . As we have pretty well exhausted all we had to say upon this subject in the body of the work , we shall here transcribe Schlegel's general ...
... genius , or the same philosophical acuteness in pointing out his characteristic excellences . As we have pretty well exhausted all we had to say upon this subject in the body of the work , we shall here transcribe Schlegel's general ...
Page xvii
... genius the utmost elevation and the utmost depth ; and the most foreign , and even apparently irreconcileable properties subsist in him peace- ably together . The world of spirits and nature have laid all their treasures at his feet ...
... genius the utmost elevation and the utmost depth ; and the most foreign , and even apparently irreconcileable properties subsist in him peace- ably together . The world of spirits and nature have laid all their treasures at his feet ...
Page xviii
... genius . We have a high respect for Dr. Johnson's character and understand- ing , mixed with something like personal attachment : but he was neither a poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls ...
... genius . We have a high respect for Dr. Johnson's character and understand- ing , mixed with something like personal attachment : but he was neither a poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls ...
Page xix
... genius , nor reflected them . The shifting shapes of fancy , the rainbow hues of things , made no impression on him : he seized only on the permanent and tangible . He had no idea of natural objects but " such as he could measure with a ...
... genius , nor reflected them . The shifting shapes of fancy , the rainbow hues of things , made no impression on him : he seized only on the permanent and tangible . He had no idea of natural objects but " such as he could measure with a ...
Page xx
... genius , where he might cut down imagination to matter - of - fact , regulate the passions according to reason , and translate the whole into logical diagrams and rhetorical declama- tion . Thus he says of Shakespear's characters , in ...
... genius , where he might cut down imagination to matter - of - fact , regulate the passions according to reason , and translate the whole into logical diagrams and rhetorical declama- tion . Thus he says of Shakespear's characters , in ...
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acter admirable affections answer Antony Apemantus appear banished Banquo beauty blood Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban Cassius char character circumstances Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE daughter death Desdemona Dost thou doth dramatic eyes Falstaff father fear feeling fool fortune friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago imagination Juliet JULIUS CÆSAR king lady Lear live look lord lover Macbeth Malvolio manner Mark Antony MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble Othello passages passion Perdita person pity pleasure poet poetry Prince Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense Shakespear shew Sir Toby sleep soul speak speech spirit story striking sweet tender thee things thou art thought Titus Andronicus tongue tragedy true truth unto W. E. Henley wife words youth