Studies of Shakespeare: In the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, with Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those PlaysLongman Brown, Green and Longmans, 1847 - 384 páginas |
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... opening of this collective volume . It is , the indispensability of intelligently cultivated act- ing , by performers of high genius and refine- ment , to bring home , not only the peculiarly dramatic , but even the most exquisitely ...
... opening of this collective volume . It is , the indispensability of intelligently cultivated act- ing , by performers of high genius and refine- ment , to bring home , not only the peculiarly dramatic , but even the most exquisitely ...
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... opening of its second great era , after the puritanical interregnum , the taste of the restored court , at once foreign and de- praved , threw the re - establishment and re- moulding of the stage into the hands — not of that class of ...
... opening of its second great era , after the puritanical interregnum , the taste of the restored court , at once foreign and de- praved , threw the re - establishment and re- moulding of the stage into the hands — not of that class of ...
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... opening of the piece , Your strong possession , much more than your right , Or else it must go wrong with you and me , says John's mother , Queen Elinor , assuredly his warmest and staunchest partisan . This clearness of Arthur's title ...
... opening of the piece , Your strong possession , much more than your right , Or else it must go wrong with you and me , says John's mother , Queen Elinor , assuredly his warmest and staunchest partisan . This clearness of Arthur's title ...
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... opening of the second act ? What weakness of intellect is here implied ? It is clearly her best policy to confide in them . Again , Mrs. Jameson desires us to observe , that the heroine cannot , from her intellectual resources ...
... opening of the second act ? What weakness of intellect is here implied ? It is clearly her best policy to confide in them . Again , Mrs. Jameson desires us to observe , that the heroine cannot , from her intellectual resources ...
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... opening conversation had already informed the auditor that everybody , except her stepmother and the foolish prince her suitor , regarded Imogen as being in the right , and her father in the wrong— He that hath miss'd the princess , is ...
... opening conversation had already informed the auditor that everybody , except her stepmother and the foolish prince her suitor , regarded Imogen as being in the right , and her father in the wrong— He that hath miss'd the princess , is ...
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Página 313 - Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Página 336 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 114 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Página 362 - 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?
Página 112 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? 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...
Página 19 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Página 310 - What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! 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.
Página 310 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Página 134 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Página 125 - Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.