An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia : Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott ...James Bigg, 1826 - 206 pages |
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... once on the heart , enter into all its feelings , and enchain all its attentions . Let the eye throw but a cur- sory glance on them , ' tis irresistibly impelled to fix its most earnest gaze . While engaged in his scenes , you think no ...
... once on the heart , enter into all its feelings , and enchain all its attentions . Let the eye throw but a cur- sory glance on them , ' tis irresistibly impelled to fix its most earnest gaze . While engaged in his scenes , you think no ...
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... once to the heart , with such immediate and resistless force ? Whence is it , that while the works of other poets are at once overwhelmed beneath the ocean of time , or at best feebly resist the gulphs of oblivion , the blasts of ...
... once to the heart , with such immediate and resistless force ? Whence is it , that while the works of other poets are at once overwhelmed beneath the ocean of time , or at best feebly resist the gulphs of oblivion , the blasts of ...
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... once into passion and enthusiasm . Pass this part of the play , and in no other place is this slight touch of the extravaganza perceived . Mark again this judgment . There is of course ( and correctly ) warmth and enthusiasm ; but I ...
... once into passion and enthusiasm . Pass this part of the play , and in no other place is this slight touch of the extravaganza perceived . Mark again this judgment . There is of course ( and correctly ) warmth and enthusiasm ; but I ...
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... once ready and characteristic . Join these , with his two following replies to his mother , ( the last , the best of the four , ) and if the reader possess anything of quickness , he is at once let into the character of Hamlet . In this ...
... once ready and characteristic . Join these , with his two following replies to his mother , ( the last , the best of the four , ) and if the reader possess anything of quickness , he is at once let into the character of Hamlet . In this ...
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... The last is a difficult line to speak correctly . I shall here remark to the reader , that I once heard a gentleman ( in a drawing - room , ) change this last line , and place the verb in the potential 40 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE .
... The last is a difficult line to speak correctly . I shall here remark to the reader , that I once heard a gentleman ( in a drawing - room , ) change this last line , and place the verb in the potential 40 ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE .
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