Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and ArtC. Kegan Paul, 1879 - 434 pages |
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Page v
... tragedies of thought rather than of passion ; both present in their chief characters , the spectacle of noble natures which fail through some weakness or deficiency rather than through crime ; upon Brutus as upon Hamlet a burden is laid ...
... tragedies of thought rather than of passion ; both present in their chief characters , the spectacle of noble natures which fail through some weakness or deficiency rather than through crime ; upon Brutus as upon Hamlet a burden is laid ...
Page vi
... tragedies , or while he was writing them , he continued to write comedy . But the genial spirit of comedy was deserting him . " Twelfth Night " resumes all the admirable humorous characteristics of the group of comedies which it ...
... tragedies , or while he was writing them , he continued to write comedy . But the genial spirit of comedy was deserting him . " Twelfth Night " resumes all the admirable humorous characteristics of the group of comedies which it ...
Page vii
... Tragedies ; this led to the cancelling of a leaf , and the filling up of a blank space left by the alteration , with the Prologue to Troilus and Cressida a prologue which is believed by several critics not to have come from Shakspere's ...
... Tragedies ; this led to the cancelling of a leaf , and the filling up of a blank space left by the alteration , with the Prologue to Troilus and Cressida a prologue which is believed by several critics not to have come from Shakspere's ...
Page viii
... tragedies . " Let us call this then the comedy of disillusion , and certainly wherever we place it we must notice a striking resemblance in its spirit and structure to Timon of Athens . Timon has a lax bene- volence and shallow trust in ...
... tragedies . " Let us call this then the comedy of disillusion , and certainly wherever we place it we must notice a striking resemblance in its spirit and structure to Timon of Athens . Timon has a lax bene- volence and shallow trust in ...
Page ix
... Tragedy " after the third division of what I have named " Later Comedy ; " it will suffice if the reader bear in mind that as a fact the comedy over- laps the succeeding group of tragedies . 1. PRE - SHAKSPERIAN GROUP . ( Touched by ...
... Tragedy " after the third division of what I have named " Later Comedy ; " it will suffice if the reader bear in mind that as a fact the comedy over- laps the succeeding group of tragedies . 1. PRE - SHAKSPERIAN GROUP . ( Touched by ...
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Page 270 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 411 - gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is In virtue, than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 174 - And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 367 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 105 - Come not to me again : but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Page 77 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Page 136 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 217 - I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Page 242 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Page 400 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.