The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes, Volume 12 |
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... rested for his attractions on a large exhibition of natural passion and true wit ; and when he produced play after play , history , comedy , - * tragedy- " works truly excellent and capable of ON THE WRITINGS OF SHAKSPERE . 57.
... rested for his attractions on a large exhibition of natural passion and true wit ; and when he produced play after play , history , comedy , - * tragedy- " works truly excellent and capable of ON THE WRITINGS OF SHAKSPERE . 57.
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... passions very lively , but , above all , love . " The highest things in Shakspere can only be fitly appreciated by a people amongst whom there is a high moral tone , capable of understanding and of originating the highest poetical ...
... passions very lively , but , above all , love . " The highest things in Shakspere can only be fitly appreciated by a people amongst whom there is a high moral tone , capable of understanding and of originating the highest poetical ...
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... the purging of those two passions in our minds . More largely thus : Tragedy describes or paints an action , which action must have all the pro- prieties above named . First , it must be one ON THE WRITINGS OF SHAKSPERE . 77.
... the purging of those two passions in our minds . More largely thus : Tragedy describes or paints an action , which action must have all the pro- prieties above named . First , it must be one ON THE WRITINGS OF SHAKSPERE . 77.
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... passions , fear and pity . " To instruct delightfully is the general end of all poetry ; philosophy instructs , but it per- forms its work by precept , which is not delight- ful , or not so delightful as example . To purge the passions ...
... passions , fear and pity . " To instruct delightfully is the general end of all poetry ; philosophy instructs , but it per- forms its work by precept , which is not delight- ful , or not so delightful as example . To purge the passions ...
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William Shakespeare Charles Knight. of tragedy have chosen to work upon two other passions , which are fear and pity . We are wrought to fear by their setting before our eyes some terrible example of misfortune which hap- pened to ...
William Shakespeare Charles Knight. of tragedy have chosen to work upon two other passions , which are fear and pity . We are wrought to fear by their setting before our eyes some terrible example of misfortune which hap- pened to ...
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Page 30 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 25 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 18 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 42 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Page 146 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Page 20 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 17 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 30 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 34 - And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun. And woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie...
Page 31 - ... his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.