 | University of Wisconsin - 1923 - 594 páginas
...senate-house would certainly have af- < ' forded him. He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable, he therefore added...power upon kings. These are the petty cavils of petty minds.1*4 But in our present inquiry we are concerned not so much with the relation of Johnson's general... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 páginas
...senate-house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer, not only odious but despicable, he therefore added...other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon Jdngs. These are the petty cavils of petty minds; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country... | |
 | 1909 - 498 páginas
...the senate-house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable, he therefore added...of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery. The censure which he has incurred by mixing comick and tragick... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1959 - 384 páginas
...always makes nature predominate over accident. . . . He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer, not only odious, but despicable; he therefore added...and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings." Cf. my notes, Hamlti 3.2.345; 3.3.56. the appearance of the Ghost in what corresponds with act 1, scene... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 páginas
...the Senate-house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to shew a usurper and a murderer not only odious, but despicable: he therefore added...wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural powers upon kings. ... A poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and conditions, as a painter,... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 páginas
...the senate house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable; he therefore added...of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery.8 Thomas Rymer, A Short View of Tragedy (1692), cites the buffoonery... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 páginas
...the senate house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable; he therefore added...of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery. The censure which he has incurred by mixing comic and tragic... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...more contemptible than both, a Voltaire. He says that Shakespeare made the Danish usurper a drunkard, 'knowing that kings love wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings/ We are ashamed that so uncritical an apology for the conduct of Shakespeare should fall from the pen... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 páginas
...and the whole system of life is continued in motion'. And all this is so because the poet correctly 'overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery' (Preface to Shakespeare, in Selected Writings, pp. 264-7). Kantlan... | |
 | Susan Staves - 2006 - 414 páginas
...[Shakespeare's] Romans not sufficiently Roman," but famously dismissed these and related concerns as "the petty cavils of petty minds": "a poet overlooks...of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery."55 Yet historicist thinking was having so profound an impact... | |
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He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable, he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities, knowing that kings love wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings. These are the petty... 
