Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Company, 1912 - 275 pages |
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... striking passages , it was a thing foredoomed to failure : a matter in which the nation , still hating its tremendous enemy , and still rejoicing in the man and the battle which had brought him to the ground , would not , and could not ...
... striking passages , it was a thing foredoomed to failure : a matter in which the nation , still hating its tremendous enemy , and still rejoicing in the man and the battle which had brought him to the ground , would not , and could not ...
Page xvi
... strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and Shakespear acted conformably to this ingenious maxim ...
... strike twice on the same place . An ancient rhetorician delivered a caution against dwelling too long on the excitation of pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and Shakespear acted conformably to this ingenious maxim ...
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... striking differences - their classes , not their degrees . He was a man of strong common sense and practical wisdom , rather than of genius or feeling . He re- tained the regular , habitual impressions of actual objects , but he could ...
... striking differences - their classes , not their degrees . He was a man of strong common sense and practical wisdom , rather than of genius or feeling . He re- tained the regular , habitual impressions of actual objects , but he could ...
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... striking parts of the story are thrown into the form of a dialogue , and the intermediate circumstances are explained by the different speakers , as occasion renders it necessary . The action is less concentrated in consequence ; but ...
... striking parts of the story are thrown into the form of a dialogue , and the intermediate circumstances are explained by the different speakers , as occasion renders it necessary . The action is less concentrated in consequence ; but ...
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... striking means . The pathos in CYMBELINE is not violent or tragical , but of the most pleasing and amiable kind . A certain tender gloom overspreads the whole . Posthumus is the ostensible hero of the piece , but its greatest charm is ...
... striking means . The pathos in CYMBELINE is not violent or tragical , but of the most pleasing and amiable kind . A certain tender gloom overspreads the whole . Posthumus is the ostensible hero of the piece , but its greatest charm is ...
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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