The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Volume 2C. and J. Ollier, 1818 |
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... sense of distinctness . When the novelty is past , we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea , we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood . We have let go a dream , in quest ...
... sense of distinctness . When the novelty is past , we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea , we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood . We have let go a dream , in quest ...
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... sense , they are the effusions of his solitary musings , which he retires to holes and corners and the most sequestered parts of the palace to pour forth ; or rather , they are the silent meditations with which his bosom is burst- ing ...
... sense , they are the effusions of his solitary musings , which he retires to holes and corners and the most sequestered parts of the palace to pour forth ; or rather , they are the silent meditations with which his bosom is burst- ing ...
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... sense of his own defects : — Wishing me like to one more rich in hope , Featur'd like him , like him with friends possest ; Desiring this man's art , and that man's scope . I am almost disposed to deny to Garrick the merit of being an ...
... sense of his own defects : — Wishing me like to one more rich in hope , Featur'd like him , like him with friends possest ; Desiring this man's art , and that man's scope . I am almost disposed to deny to Garrick the merit of being an ...
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... sense of pre- sence : it rather seems to belong to history , —to something past and inevitable , if it has any thing to do with time at all . The sublime images , the poetry alone , is that which is present to our minds in the reading ...
... sense of pre- sence : it rather seems to belong to history , —to something past and inevitable , if it has any thing to do with time at all . The sublime images , the poetry alone , is that which is present to our minds in the reading ...
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... sense of merit in him whom she loved , laying aside every consideration of kindred , and country , and colour , and ... senses . She sees Othello's colour in his mind . But upon the stage , when the imagination is no longer the ruling ...
... sense of merit in him whom she loved , laying aside every consideration of kindred , and country , and colour , and ... senses . She sees Othello's colour in his mind . But upon the stage , when the imagination is no longer the ruling ...
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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]....