The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Volume 2C. and J. Ollier, 1818 |
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... believe , nor understand how it can be possible . " 1 We talk of Shakspeare's admirable observation of life , when we should feel , that not from a petty inquisition into those cheap and every - day characters which surrounded him , as ...
... believe , nor understand how it can be possible . " 1 We talk of Shakspeare's admirable observation of life , when we should feel , that not from a petty inquisition into those cheap and every - day characters which surrounded him , as ...
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... Tate and Cibber , and the rest of them , that With their darkness durst affront his light , have foisted into the acting plays of Shakspeare ? I believe it impossible that he could have had a 20 ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES .
... Tate and Cibber , and the rest of them , that With their darkness durst affront his light , have foisted into the acting plays of Shakspeare ? I believe it impossible that he could have had a 20 ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES .
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In Two Parts Charles Lamb. I believe it impossible that he could have had a proper reverence for Shakspeare , and have con- descended to go through that interpolated scene in Richard the Third , in which Richard tries to break his wife's ...
In Two Parts Charles Lamb. I believe it impossible that he could have had a proper reverence for Shakspeare , and have con- descended to go through that interpolated scene in Richard the Third , in which Richard tries to break his wife's ...
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... believe the wondrous tale while we are reading it ; but to have a con- juror brought before us in his conjuring - gown , with his spirits about him , which none but him- self and some hundred of favoured spectators before the curtain ...
... believe the wondrous tale while we are reading it ; but to have a con- juror brought before us in his conjuring - gown , with his spirits about him , which none but him- self and some hundred of favoured spectators before the curtain ...
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... of itself , but in scene - painting there is the attempt to deceive ; and there is the discordancy , never to be got over , between painted scenes and real people . ing , to make us believe that we hear those 32 ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES .
... of itself , but in scene - painting there is the attempt to deceive ; and there is the discordancy , never to be got over , between painted scenes and real people . ing , to make us believe that we hear those 32 ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES .
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Page 19 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 142 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 37 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Page 25 - 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.
Page 86 - Doctors, and their servants (so that the remnant of the body would not hold out a bone amongst so many hands), take what was left out of the grave, and burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook...
Page 64 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Page 26 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending.
Page 22 - The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences.
Page 183 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Page 4 - But such is the instantaneous nature of the impressions which we take in at the eye and ear at a playhouse, compared with the slow apprehension often-times of the understanding in reading, that we are apt not only to sink the play-writer in the consideration which we pay to the actor, but even to identify in our minds in a perverse manner the actor with the character which he represents. It is difficult for a frequent play-goer to disembarrass the idea of Hamlet from the person and voice of Mr K[emble]....