Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and GeniusH. Colburn, 1828 - 494 pages |
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... madness of Edgar , which , if the story of Edgar stood alone , would be insufferable , and would utterly degrade him to us , seems , asso- ciated as he is with Lear , to come within the con- secration of Lear's madness . It agrees with ...
... madness of Edgar , which , if the story of Edgar stood alone , would be insufferable , and would utterly degrade him to us , seems , asso- ciated as he is with Lear , to come within the con- secration of Lear's madness . It agrees with ...
Page 103
... madness than in his right senses - as if the inde- structible divinity of the spirit gleamed at times more brightly through the ruins of its earthly ta- bernacle . The death of Cordelia and the death of Lear leave on our minds , at ...
... madness than in his right senses - as if the inde- structible divinity of the spirit gleamed at times more brightly through the ruins of its earthly ta- bernacle . The death of Cordelia and the death of Lear leave on our minds , at ...
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... madness . This poet , who externally seems to be most calm and temperate , clear and lively ; with whom in- tellect seems everywhere to predominate ; who , as we at first imagine , regards and represents every thing almost with coldness ...
... madness . This poet , who externally seems to be most calm and temperate , clear and lively ; with whom in- tellect seems everywhere to predominate ; who , as we at first imagine , regards and represents every thing almost with coldness ...
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... madness ; finally , he has contrived to blend both in the extraordinary cha- racter of Hamlet , and to join together the light of reason , the cunning of intentional error , and the involuntary disorder of the soul . If he has shown ...
... madness ; finally , he has contrived to blend both in the extraordinary cha- racter of Hamlet , and to join together the light of reason , the cunning of intentional error , and the involuntary disorder of the soul . If he has shown ...
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... madness , as if the soul was alienated from itself in proportion as it became guilty . The terrible dreams of Richard III .; his sleep agitated with the convulsions of remorse ; the still more frightful sleep of Lady Macbeth , or rather ...
... madness , as if the soul was alienated from itself in proportion as it became guilty . The terrible dreams of Richard III .; his sleep agitated with the convulsions of remorse ; the still more frightful sleep of Lady Macbeth , or rather ...
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Page 456 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, 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 402 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 306 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 380 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 185 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 191 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 368 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds, too late, that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is— to die.
Page 321 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall...
Page 326 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 328 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.