 | Winchester College. Shakspere Society - 1887 - 330 páginas
...Cordelia's settlement in life, to which Shakespeare's tragedy was condemned when " Tate put his hook into the nostrils of this leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw it about more easily," and which aroused the critical indignation of Charles Lamb. Scarcely less noticeable... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1888 - 442 páginas
...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes,...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending !—as if the living martyrdom that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 páginas
...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show: it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes,...Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tj&tehjis_pnJ; his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 páginas
...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes,...and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw it about more easily. A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gono through, —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 282 páginas
...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony, — it must have lovescenes,...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending 1 — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 282 páginas
...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony, — it must have lovescenes-,...Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too.' _Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen... | |
 | 1893 - 972 páginas
...the "improvements" in the tragedy, too, could not but give dire offence. "Tate," Lamb well says, " put his hook in the nostrils of this leviathan for Garrick and his followers, the fuglemen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily." The twofold prejudice thus felt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 220 páginas
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1900 - 472 páginas
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 534 páginas
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony; it must have love scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily." Tennyson has left us his opinion that "Lear cannot... | |
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What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. 
