Shakespeare and His CriticsHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 386 էջ |
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... plays of William Shakespeare from the seventeenth century to the present time . The verdict of the world of playgoers , that some of the plays when well acted were far better worth seeing than those of any other dramatist , has been the ...
... plays of William Shakespeare from the seventeenth century to the present time . The verdict of the world of playgoers , that some of the plays when well acted were far better worth seeing than those of any other dramatist , has been the ...
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... plays from the standpoint of the theatre , ignor- ing the idea that the tragedies were commentaries on human nature and possessed an absolute quality like truth or beauty . Dr. Johnson is typical of this class , if he is not too extreme ...
... plays from the standpoint of the theatre , ignor- ing the idea that the tragedies were commentaries on human nature and possessed an absolute quality like truth or beauty . Dr. Johnson is typical of this class , if he is not too extreme ...
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... plays . At the same time there was a dispo- sition to minimize the elements of wonder and rever- ence , and to reduce all critical considerations to rational grounds . This corrected some of the extravagancies of the romanticists , but ...
... plays . At the same time there was a dispo- sition to minimize the elements of wonder and rever- ence , and to reduce all critical considerations to rational grounds . This corrected some of the extravagancies of the romanticists , but ...
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... plays of Shakespeare were printed long before large publishing establishments had brought the art of proof - reading to its present state of exactness , and were particularly unfortunate in not coming under the eye of a corrector of any ...
... plays of Shakespeare were printed long before large publishing establishments had brought the art of proof - reading to its present state of exactness , and were particularly unfortunate in not coming under the eye of a corrector of any ...
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... plays several quartos were issued ; six or seven of Richard III and four of Rich- ard II . In some cases , when the dates are far apart , the quartos show the play in different stages of devel- opment , and are then , as in the case of ...
... plays several quartos were issued ; six or seven of Richard III and four of Rich- ard II . In some cases , when the dates are far apart , the quartos show the play in different stages of devel- opment , and are then , as in the case of ...
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Էջ 8 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse...
Էջ 60 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Էջ 29 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Էջ 178 - The form is mechanic, when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material; as when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever shape we wish it to retain when hardened. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate; it shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fullness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form.
Էջ 183 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the "Malice of daughters and .storms.
Էջ 60 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Էջ 37 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Էջ 185 - But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realizing an idea, we have only materialized and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood.
Էջ 119 - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter...
Էջ 123 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.