Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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Página 92
... playing with our purposes as with his own . He turned the globe round for his amusement , and surveyed the generations of men , and the individuals as they passed , with their different concerns , pas- sions , follies , vices , virtues ...
... playing with our purposes as with his own . He turned the globe round for his amusement , and surveyed the generations of men , and the individuals as they passed , with their different concerns , pas- sions , follies , vices , virtues ...
Página 94
... play , as we might see it on the stage . A word , an epithet paints a whole scene , or throws us back whole years in the history of the person represented . So ( as it has been in- geniously remarked ) when Prospero describes himself as ...
... play , as we might see it on the stage . A word , an epithet paints a whole scene , or throws us back whole years in the history of the person represented . So ( as it has been in- geniously remarked ) when Prospero describes himself as ...
Página 96
... play Hamlet , as we have seen it played , with strut , and stare , and antic right - angled sharp- pointed gestures , it is difficult to say , unless it be that Hamlet is not bound , by the prompter's cue , to study the part of Ophelia ...
... play Hamlet , as we have seen it played , with strut , and stare , and antic right - angled sharp- pointed gestures , it is difficult to say , unless it be that Hamlet is not bound , by the prompter's cue , to study the part of Ophelia ...
Página 97
... avail himself of it ? The thing happens in the play as it might have happened in fact . - That which , perhaps , more than H any thing else distinguishes the dramatic produc- tions of Shakspeare ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 97.
... avail himself of it ? The thing happens in the play as it might have happened in fact . - That which , perhaps , more than H any thing else distinguishes the dramatic produc- tions of Shakspeare ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON . 97.
Página 98
... plays alone are properly expressions of the passions , not descriptions of them . His characters are real beings of flesh and blood ; they speak like men , not like authors . One might suppose that he had stood by at the time , and ...
... plays alone are properly expressions of the passions , not descriptions of them . His characters are real beings of flesh and blood ; they speak like men , not like authors . One might suppose that he had stood by at the time , and ...
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.