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Page 209 - 270 f: And Cesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry ' Havoc !' and let slip the dogs of war ; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Page 400 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 71 - had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 216 - In the present play, after the indubitable witches have taken flight, Banquo asks Macbeth, Were such things here as we do speak about ? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner ? Likewise, after their second appearance, Macbeth questions, fruitlessly, his lord-in-waiting Lennox. For your subtler dramatist must have a way of distinguishing the natural and the supernatural
Page 605 - whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 72 - If I would compare him with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
Page 222 - dad in while robes, wearing on their heads garlands of bays and golden vizards on their faces; branches of bays or palm in their hands. They Jirst congee unto her, then dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold a spare garland over her head ; at which the other four make
Page 129 - He must have been a man of most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humors (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Page 222 - the same order in their changes, and holding the garland over her head: which done, they deliver the same garland to the last two, who likewise observe the same order : at which, as it were by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing, and holdeth up her hands to heaven: and so in their dancing vanish, carrying
Page 611 - In reality poetry and rhetoric \ do not succeed in exact description so well as painting does ; \ their business is to affect rather by sympathy than imitation ; to display rather the effect of things on the mind ' of the speaker, or of others, than to present a clear idea of the things themselves.