Characters of Shakespear's PlaysC.H. Reynell, 1818 - 352 pages |
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... thing ap- pears unnatural that does not suit its own tame insipidity . Hence , an idea has been formed of simple and natural pathos , which consists in exclamations destitute of imagery , and nowise elevated above every - day life . But ...
... thing ap- pears unnatural that does not suit its own tame insipidity . Hence , an idea has been formed of simple and natural pathos , which consists in exclamations destitute of imagery , and nowise elevated above every - day life . But ...
Page xvii
... things , made no impression on him : he seized only on the permanent and tangible . He had no idea of natural objects but " such as he could mea- sure with a two - foot rule , or tell upon ten fin- gers : " he judged of human nature in ...
... things , made no impression on him : he seized only on the permanent and tangible . He had no idea of natural objects but " such as he could mea- sure with a two - foot rule , or tell upon ten fin- gers : " he judged of human nature in ...
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... thing to be : - " Pisanio . What cheer , Madam ? Imogen . False to his bed ! What is it to be false ? To lie in watch there , and to think on him ? To weep ' twixt clock and clock ? If sleep charge nature , To break it with a fearful ...
... thing to be : - " Pisanio . What cheer , Madam ? Imogen . False to his bed ! What is it to be false ? To lie in watch there , and to think on him ? To weep ' twixt clock and clock ? If sleep charge nature , To break it with a fearful ...
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... things the mind . What he represents is brought home to the bosom as a part of our experience , implanted in the memory as if we had known the places , persons ,, and things of which he treats . ' MACBETH is like a record of a preter ...
... things the mind . What he represents is brought home to the bosom as a part of our experience , implanted in the memory as if we had known the places , persons ,, and things of which he treats . ' MACBETH is like a record of a preter ...
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... thing but her greater consis- tency in depravity . Her strong - nerved ambi- tion furnishes ribs of steel to " the sides of his intent ; " and she is herself wound up to the exe- cution of her baneful project with the same un- shrinking ...
... thing but her greater consis- tency in depravity . Her strong - nerved ambi- tion furnishes ribs of steel to " the sides of his intent ; " and she is herself wound up to the exe- cution of her baneful project with the same un- shrinking ...
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