Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of Shakespeare's Representation of National Characters, in that of Fluellen |
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... sion , vigilance must be exerted where we are weakest and most exposed . We must there- fore be attentive to the state and constitution of our own minds ; we must discover to what habits we are most addicted , and of what propensities ...
... sion , vigilance must be exerted where we are weakest and most exposed . We must there- fore be attentive to the state and constitution of our own minds ; we must discover to what habits we are most addicted , and of what propensities ...
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... sion is accompanied with corresponding changes in the sentiments of the spectator . Macbeth engaged in the defence of his country , and pursuing the objects of a laud- able ambition , is justly honoured and esteem- ed . But the ...
... sion is accompanied with corresponding changes in the sentiments of the spectator . Macbeth engaged in the defence of his country , and pursuing the objects of a laud- able ambition , is justly honoured and esteem- ed . But the ...
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... sion , in cases of censure , accompanies the decisions of our moral faculty : and those who are deterred from crimes , merely by the dread of punishment , and a regard to the opinions of mankind , betray a vitiated and depraved ...
... sion , in cases of censure , accompanies the decisions of our moral faculty : and those who are deterred from crimes , merely by the dread of punishment , and a regard to the opinions of mankind , betray a vitiated and depraved ...
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... sion of suffering by their communion ; and , consequently , a desire of avoiding them . As it arises on the view of groveling and sordid qualities , we treat the character they belong to with contempt , rather than with indignation . 70 ...
... sion of suffering by their communion ; and , consequently , a desire of avoiding them . As it arises on the view of groveling and sordid qualities , we treat the character they belong to with contempt , rather than with indignation . 70 ...
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... sion , will be our eagerness to decide . But the manner in which objects excite attention depends on the strength of the exciting pas- sion ; therefore proportioned to the vehe- mence of the passion will be our proneness to be convinced ...
... sion , will be our eagerness to decide . But the manner in which objects excite attention depends on the strength of the exciting pas- sion ; therefore proportioned to the vehe- mence of the passion will be our proneness to be convinced ...
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Page 46 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 109 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops...
Page 347 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 22 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month Let me not think on't!
Page 59 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 22 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God 1 How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't ! O fie ! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Page 51 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 22 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Page 111 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 23 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.