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... The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts - Página 22por Charles Lamb - 1818Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 páginas
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters—Macbeth, Richard, evert lago—we think not so much of the crimes which they commit...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences. Barnwell 18 is a wretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between his neck... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1922 - 426 páginas
...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,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barn well is a wretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between his neck and the rope ; he is... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 páginas
...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,...activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences.•j Barnwell is a wretched murderer; there is a certain fitness Between his neck and the rope;... | |
| David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 páginas
...actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, -Macbeth, Richard, even Iago, - we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." Such promptings, if Johnson ever came to emphasize them, would render a work merely vicious to his... | |
| Susan Bruce - 1998 - 196 páginas
...or curiosity as to their actions that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters ... we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. . . . [S]o little do the actions [of Shakespeare's criminal characters] . . . affect us, that while... | |
| Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton - 2002 - 342 páginas
...when we read the tragedies 'we think not so much of the crimes which [Shakespeare's villainous heroes] commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences'. He goes on to argue that 'what we see upon a stage is body and bodily action:... | |
| Kamilla Elliott - 2003 - 328 páginas
...villains: . . . 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,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences . . . not an atom of all which is made perceivable in Mr. Cfibber]'s way of acting [Richard III] .... | |
| John Russell Brown - 2005 - 280 páginas
...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,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Lamb was led to notice something especially significant in Macbeth - that the emphasis when we read... | |
| Stefanie Markovits - 2006 - 268 páginas
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even Iago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences. . . . But when we see these things represented the acts which they do are comparatively... | |
| 1835 - 1190 páginas
...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,...there is a certain fitness between his neck and the rope—he is the legitimate heir to the gallows; nobody who thinks at all can think of any alleviating... | |
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