Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 229 pages |
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... thoughts , whether from carelessness or caprice , fall short of the point of truth always aimed at , they nevertheless ... thought , and always brilliant in ex- pression . Right or wrong , they cannot be read with in- difference ; for ...
... thoughts , whether from carelessness or caprice , fall short of the point of truth always aimed at , they nevertheless ... thought , and always brilliant in ex- pression . Right or wrong , they cannot be read with in- difference ; for ...
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... thought not impossible to improve on the manner in which the German critic has executed this part of his design were in avoiding an appearance of mysticism in his style , not very attractive to the English reader , and in bringing ...
... thought not impossible to improve on the manner in which the German critic has executed this part of his design were in avoiding an appearance of mysticism in his style , not very attractive to the English reader , and in bringing ...
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... thought and accident . Hence he could judge neither of the heights nor depths of poetry . Nor is this all ; for being conscious of great powers in him- self , and those powers of an adverse tendency to those of his author , he would be ...
... thought and accident . Hence he could judge neither of the heights nor depths of poetry . Nor is this all ; for being conscious of great powers in him- self , and those powers of an adverse tendency to those of his author , he would be ...
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... thought he is absent and perplexed , sudden and desperate in act , from a distrust of his own resolution . His energy springs from the anxiety and agitation of his mind . His blindly rushing for- ward on the objects of his ambition and ...
... thought he is absent and perplexed , sudden and desperate in act , from a distrust of his own resolution . His energy springs from the anxiety and agitation of his mind . His blindly rushing for- ward on the objects of his ambition and ...
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... thoughts spare the blood neither of infants nor old age . The description of the Witches is full of the same ... thought at first only a bold . rude , Gothic outline . By comparing it with other characters of the same author we ...
... thoughts spare the blood neither of infants nor old age . The description of the Witches is full of the same ... thought at first only a bold . rude , Gothic outline . By comparing it with other characters of the same author we ...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays: & Lectures on the English Poets William Hazlitt No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 144 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 167 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 73 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 73 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 104 - 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...
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Page xx - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 112 - Lear. Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Page 210 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 101 - 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 ? For fear of that I...