The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Jefferson Press, 1906 |
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Page x
... poet has been endowed with equally ready or equally complete command of language , having the triple virtues of simplicity , sensuousness , and passion . No author has sounded a more vivid or a fuller note of humour and comicality ...
... poet has been endowed with equally ready or equally complete command of language , having the triple virtues of simplicity , sensuousness , and passion . No author has sounded a more vivid or a fuller note of humour and comicality ...
Page xi
... poets , through nearly the whole era of his activity Shakespeare produced great work — not spasmodically nor at uncertain intervals , but with the utmost regularity , at the methodical rate of two plays a year . Nor did he exhaust his ...
... poets , through nearly the whole era of his activity Shakespeare produced great work — not spasmodically nor at uncertain intervals , but with the utmost regularity , at the methodical rate of two plays a year . Nor did he exhaust his ...
Page xii
... poetic faculty , of imagina- tive and dramatic insight . The approach of age , so far from quickening , often tends to impair such qualities as these . It may be that in the minor currents of Shakespeare's productivity , — at times in ...
... poetic faculty , of imagina- tive and dramatic insight . The approach of age , so far from quickening , often tends to impair such qualities as these . It may be that in the minor currents of Shakespeare's productivity , — at times in ...
Page xv
... poet's latest work of a perfect recognition of the elemental and ethereal spirit of feminine youth and beauty . II ... poets and is constantly and conspicuously present in Shakespeare , power of absorbing or assimilating the fruits of ...
... poet's latest work of a perfect recognition of the elemental and ethereal spirit of feminine youth and beauty . II ... poets and is constantly and conspicuously present in Shakespeare , power of absorbing or assimilating the fruits of ...
Page xviii
... poet defies such artificial restrictions ; the constraint of rhyme is well - nigh abandoned altogether ; recourse is more frequently made to prose ; the pause is varied in- definitely ; long speeches are met with in the " Winter's Tale ...
... poet defies such artificial restrictions ; the constraint of rhyme is well - nigh abandoned altogether ; recourse is more frequently made to prose ; the pause is varied in- definitely ; long speeches are met with in the " Winter's Tale ...
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