Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... human charac- ters have not only such depth and precision that they can- not be arranged under classes , and are inexhaustible , even in conception : -no - this Prometheus not merely forms men , he opens the gates of the magical world ...
... human charac- ters have not only such depth and precision that they can- not be arranged under classes , and are inexhaustible , even in conception : -no - this Prometheus not merely forms men , he opens the gates of the magical world ...
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... human nature in the same way , by mood and figure : he saw only the definite , the positive , and the practical ; the average forms of things , not their strik- ing differences ; their classes , not their degrees . He was a man of ...
... human nature in the same way , by mood and figure : he saw only the definite , the positive , and the practical ; the average forms of things , not their strik- ing differences ; their classes , not their degrees . He was a man of ...
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... human nature which are constantly repeated and always the same , which follow one another in regular succession , which are acted upon by large classes of men , and embodied in received customs , laws , language , and institutions ; and ...
... human nature which are constantly repeated and always the same , which follow one another in regular succession , which are acted upon by large classes of men , and embodied in received customs , laws , language , and institutions ; and ...
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... human passion with redoubled force . Macbeth himself appears driven along by the violence of his fate like a vessel drifting before a storm ; he reels to and fro like a drunken man ; he staggers under the weight of his own purposes and ...
... human passion with redoubled force . Macbeth himself appears driven along by the violence of his fate like a vessel drifting before a storm ; he reels to and fro like a drunken man ; he staggers under the weight of his own purposes and ...
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... human sympathies and contempt for all human affairs , as Lady Macbeth does by the force of passion ! ) Her fault seems to have been an excess of that strong principle of self - interest and family aggrandizement , not amenable to the ...
... human sympathies and contempt for all human affairs , as Lady Macbeth does by the force of passion ! ) Her fault seems to have been an excess of that strong principle of self - interest and family aggrandizement , not amenable to the ...
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Page 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 167 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 73 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 104 - 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...
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Page xx - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 112 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 101 - Ah ! dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair ? Shall I believe That unsubstantial Death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour ? For fear of that I...