Characters of Shakespear's PlaysC.H. Reynell, 1817 - 352 pages |
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... pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and Shakespear acted conformably to this ingenious maxim , without knowing it . " The objection , that Shakespear wounds our feelings by the open display of the most disgust- ing ...
... pity ; for nothing , he said , dries so soon as tears ; and Shakespear acted conformably to this ingenious maxim , without knowing it . " The objection , that Shakespear wounds our feelings by the open display of the most disgust- ing ...
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... pity or resentment of his reader . " Poor Shakespear ! Between the charges here brought against him , of want of nature in the first instance , and of want of skill in the second , he could hardly escape being con- demned . And again ...
... pity or resentment of his reader . " Poor Shakespear ! Between the charges here brought against him , of want of nature in the first instance , and of want of skill in the second , he could hardly escape being con- demned . And again ...
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... pity even of his murderers , has been often pointed out . It forms a picture of itself . An instance of the author's power of giving a striking effect to a common reflection , by the manner of introducing it , occurs in a speech of ...
... pity even of his murderers , has been often pointed out . It forms a picture of itself . An instance of the author's power of giving a striking effect to a common reflection , by the manner of introducing it , occurs in a speech of ...
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... pity , is even made in some measure the dupe of his uxoriousness , ranks the loss of friends , of the cordial love of his followers , and of his good name , among the causes which have made him weary of life , and regrets that he has ...
... pity , is even made in some measure the dupe of his uxoriousness , ranks the loss of friends , of the cordial love of his followers , and of his good name , among the causes which have made him weary of life , and regrets that he has ...
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... pity . That is , it substitutes imaginary sympathy for mere selfishness . It gives us a high and permanent interest , beyond ourselves , in humanity as such . It raises the great , the remote , and the possible to an equa- lity with the ...
... pity . That is , it substitutes imaginary sympathy for mere selfishness . It gives us a high and permanent interest , beyond ourselves , in humanity as such . It raises the great , the remote , and the possible to an equa- lity with the ...
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admirable affections answer Antony Apemantus banished Banquo beauty Ben Jonson blood Bolingbroke breath Brutus Cæsar Caliban Cassius character Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus CYMBELINE daughter death Desdemona doth eyes Falstaff fancy father fear feeling fool fortune friends genius give Gonerill grace grave Hamlet hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human Iago imagination Juliet Julius Cæsar king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind moral nature never night noble Othello passages passion Perdita person pity play pleasure poet poetry prince racter refined Regan revenge Richard Richard III Romeo ROMEO AND JULIET scene sense Shake Shakespear shew shewn Sir Toby sleep soul speak spear speech spirit story striking sweet tender thee thing thou art thought tion Titus Andronicus tongue tragedy true truth unto wife wild words Yorkshire Tragedy youth
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Page 174 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 222 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Page 351 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 259 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Page 36 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 151 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 87 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
Page 352 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 156 - 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...