Shakespeare's Scholar: Being Historical and Critical Studies of His Text, Characters, and Commentators, with an Examination of Mr. Collier's Folio of 1632D. Appleton, 1854 - 504 pages |
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Page viii
... spirit with which a neophyte listens to the teachings of a revered and no less beloved master . It is in this spirit that I have studied Shakespeare since the time whereof my memory runneth not to the contrary ; and it is because so few ...
... spirit with which a neophyte listens to the teachings of a revered and no less beloved master . It is in this spirit that I have studied Shakespeare since the time whereof my memory runneth not to the contrary ; and it is because so few ...
Page xiv
... , it was suggested to me by some whose judgments I respected , that a book written in the same spirit upon the text of Shakespeare , would be welcomed by all those who were giving attention to a xiv PREFATORY LETTER .
... , it was suggested to me by some whose judgments I respected , that a book written in the same spirit upon the text of Shakespeare , would be welcomed by all those who were giving attention to a xiv PREFATORY LETTER .
Page xix
... spirit should never undertake to criti- cise them . As to the most eminent of his editors in the last century , the baleful influence of whose labors has not yet passed away , they themselves have left us the best reasons for concluding ...
... spirit should never undertake to criti- cise them . As to the most eminent of his editors in the last century , the baleful influence of whose labors has not yet passed away , they themselves have left us the best reasons for concluding ...
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... spirit of the great dramatist . But enough of this , and too much ; and yet I have said nothing which it did not seem as if I must say , if I broke silence at all . That that which I have just written and that which lies beyond this ...
... spirit of the great dramatist . But enough of this , and too much ; and yet I have said nothing which it did not seem as if I must say , if I broke silence at all . That that which I have just written and that which lies beyond this ...
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... spirit that " made the things more rich , " of needful vol- umes which I might have sought for long in vain . To his knowledge and experience I also owe some valuable sug- gestions . From Joseph Cogswell , LL . D. Superintendent of the ...
... spirit that " made the things more rich , " of needful vol- umes which I might have sought for long in vain . To his knowledge and experience I also owe some valuable sug- gestions . From Joseph Cogswell , LL . D. Superintendent of the ...
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Page 120 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings 30 Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 217 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of Imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 115 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 36 - We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 217 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 47 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly; These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which...
Page 46 - 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?
Page 148 - I'll speak all They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad : so may my husband.
Page 254 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 340 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...