An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is Annexed, A Letter to Lord -----, Containing a Critique on Taste, Judgment, and Rhetorical Expression, and Remarks on the Leading Actors of the Day ...J. Bigg, 1826 - Počet stran: 206 |
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... graceful figure - sweet voice - great gentility — and a slight touch of the warm and playful " Charles , " of the brilliant Sheridan . Now these are qualities that are not always combined ; and unless my observa- tions deceive me , I ...
... graceful figure - sweet voice - great gentility — and a slight touch of the warm and playful " Charles , " of the brilliant Sheridan . Now these are qualities that are not always combined ; and unless my observa- tions deceive me , I ...
Strana 29
... graceful figure , not a fine figure— he must have a sweet voice not a strong voice - he must be gifted with insinuating manners , not genteel manners - he must be a fluent and sweet declaimer , and not a turgid and studied one - he must ...
... graceful figure , not a fine figure— he must have a sweet voice not a strong voice - he must be gifted with insinuating manners , not genteel manners - he must be a fluent and sweet declaimer , and not a turgid and studied one - he must ...
Strana 33
... graceful figure - vide act iii . scene 1. - " The glass of fashion and the mould of form ; the observed of all observers . " Hamlet was a master of the graceful art of fencing - vide last act . Hamlet was a keen observer of human nature ...
... graceful figure - vide act iii . scene 1. - " The glass of fashion and the mould of form ; the observed of all observers . " Hamlet was a master of the graceful art of fencing - vide last act . Hamlet was a keen observer of human nature ...
Strana 35
... graceful and winning demeanour which the poet has so nobly depicted him in , if we suppose him to be an ideot . Look now on the other side of the picture . Suppose him not mad . Suppose him to be in full exercise of those powers of ...
... graceful and winning demeanour which the poet has so nobly depicted him in , if we suppose him to be an ideot . Look now on the other side of the picture . Suppose him not mad . Suppose him to be in full exercise of those powers of ...
Strana 97
... graceful and noble fabric of excellence and fame ? Yet , as my object was to write on the genius of Shakespeare my task would not be ful- filled did I not notice the obscurities that clouded , H as well as the lustre that illuminated it ...
... graceful and noble fabric of excellence and fame ? Yet , as my object was to write on the genius of Shakespeare my task would not be ful- filled did I not notice the obscurities that clouded , H as well as the lustre that illuminated it ...
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Strana 14 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Strana 60 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Strana 140 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Strana 140 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Strana 12 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Strana 15 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Strana 15 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Strana 21 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Strana 39 - With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you, now ! The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Strana 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.