An Essay Upon the Ghost-belief of ShakespeareHope, 1851 - 31 páginas |
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... never ( at least as far as is known ) been treated of . Most of Shakespeare's admirers doubtless imagine that such an in- tellect as his , could never have given credence to a Ghost ; nor are they very curious to ask , how it was , on ...
... never ( at least as far as is known ) been treated of . Most of Shakespeare's admirers doubtless imagine that such an in- tellect as his , could never have given credence to a Ghost ; nor are they very curious to ask , how it was , on ...
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... never to adduce a mere Opinion , exprest by one of his Characters , as his Opinion . Of those who do so , it will probably be found , that , to use Horatio's expression , they do but " botch the words up to fit their own thoughts . " In ...
... never to adduce a mere Opinion , exprest by one of his Characters , as his Opinion . Of those who do so , it will probably be found , that , to use Horatio's expression , they do but " botch the words up to fit their own thoughts . " In ...
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... the muddy vesture of decay . " Dr. Alderson begs the question altogether when he asserts that Apparitions are never seen but by one person at a time , and that one in an abnormal state . But grant that it were so , that would not at all 10.
... the muddy vesture of decay . " Dr. Alderson begs the question altogether when he asserts that Apparitions are never seen but by one person at a time , and that one in an abnormal state . But grant that it were so , that would not at all 10.
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... never be forgotten , that even in the material world there are very different kinds of Realities , and this is a point which we have never seen at all met , or , apparently , even dreamt of , by the skeptics . A Phantasmagoria is real ...
... never be forgotten , that even in the material world there are very different kinds of Realities , and this is a point which we have never seen at all met , or , apparently , even dreamt of , by the skeptics . A Phantasmagoria is real ...
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... never could have written Lafeu's speeches . In them he has shewn that he saw clean thro ' the skeptical spirit , a thing impossible for a skeptic to do . SHAKESPEARE'S IDEA OF TRUE ART . It will , we may presume , be conceded , that ...
... never could have written Lafeu's speeches . In them he has shewn that he saw clean thro ' the skeptical spirit , a thing impossible for a skeptic to do . SHAKESPEARE'S IDEA OF TRUE ART . It will , we may presume , be conceded , that ...
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admiration admit Alderson altho Antigonus Apparitions appear Art thou Artist authentic fellows beautiful BELIEF OF SHAKESPEARE believe book of Secresy cause Characters Charles Knight Critic upon Shakespeare Desdemona's words efficient cause Essay expression external fact Feelings fixt opinion Ghost in Hamlet Ghost or Soul Ghost-Believer Ghost-Believer's Glendower Harvard College hear Helenus Hippolyta Hotspur Human Form idea Internal World justly Lafeu Lafeu's speech learned and authentic Lover Macbeth material world Materialist Mesmerism mind Miracles are past modesty of Nature mortal coil Musicians Natural Worlds NAUMBURG never Objective Reality observed ourselves into seeming persons at once philosophical persons Play Poet Poetry Prophetic Dreams reason replies Revenge and Mercy Scene seeming knowledge seen sense servile copies shewn shews show that Shakespeare Skeptic Soothsayer speak Spirit of Inquiry Spiritual World Story strange supernatural and causeless supernatural theme Superstition Theseus things supernatural thought trifles of terrors Troilus true unknown fear word Causeless
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Página 28 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Página 28 - T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
Página 9 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Página 15 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 15 - ... 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 the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 13 - They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Página 28 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Página 7 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Página 13 - Shakspeare, inspired, as it might seem, with all knowledge, here uses the word 'causeless' in its strict philosophical sense ;— cause being truly predicable only of phenomena, that is, things natural, and not of noumena, or things supernatural.
Página 21 - O! reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.