Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of FluellenSamuel Bagster, in the Strand., 1812 - 448 páginas |
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... qualities of external objects , and pay no attention to the mind ? " But , though the utility or pleasure re- sulting from the study of human nature is manifest , the progress men have hitherto made in it , neither corresponds with the ...
... qualities of external objects , and pay no attention to the mind ? " But , though the utility or pleasure re- sulting from the study of human nature is manifest , the progress men have hitherto made in it , neither corresponds with the ...
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... : their versification may be harmo- nious , and , above all , their characters may be judiciously composed , partaking of no incongruous qualities , and free from the 1 discord of jarring principles . But the end of 20 INTRODUCTION .
... : their versification may be harmo- nious , and , above all , their characters may be judiciously composed , partaking of no incongruous qualities , and free from the 1 discord of jarring principles . But the end of 20 INTRODUCTION .
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... qualities , but also an apprehen- sion of suffering by their communion ; and , consequently , a desire of avoiding them . As it arises on the view of groveling and sordid qualities , we treat the character they belong to with contempt ...
... qualities , but also an apprehen- sion of suffering by their communion ; and , consequently , a desire of avoiding them . As it arises on the view of groveling and sordid qualities , we treat the character they belong to with contempt ...
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... qualities are those , princi- pally , that produce and cement his attach- ments , the esteem he entertains for his as- sociates will be exactly proportioned to their degree of merit . To eraze an established affection , and substitute ...
... qualities are those , princi- pally , that produce and cement his attach- ments , the esteem he entertains for his as- sociates will be exactly proportioned to their degree of merit . To eraze an established affection , and substitute ...
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... qualities and properties that may belong to it , or views of the relation it may have to other objects , are often sug- gested though of their actual existence we are not assured . Yet , if we cannot nega- tively affirm that they do not ...
... qualities and properties that may belong to it , or views of the relation it may have to other objects , are often sug- gested though of their actual existence we are not assured . Yet , if we cannot nega- tively affirm that they do not ...
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Página 46 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 109 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops...
Página 347 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 22 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't!
Página 59 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Página 22 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God 1 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Página 51 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Página 22 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Página 111 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Página 23 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.