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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... critics in the present day , that the time is gone by when the study of Shakespeare could demand or even admit of histrionic aid , and that such is peculiarly the case with his more ideal creations . On the contrary , as is especially ...
... critics in the present day , that the time is gone by when the study of Shakespeare could demand or even admit of histrionic aid , and that such is peculiarly the case with his more ideal creations . On the contrary , as is especially ...
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... critic or commentator can give him — which can only come from the performer whom Nature and Shakespeare have themselves inspired , and which is indispensable to realize to us that living and breathing creation which each of these dramas ...
... critic or commentator can give him — which can only come from the performer whom Nature and Shakespeare have themselves inspired , and which is indispensable to realize to us that living and breathing creation which each of these dramas ...
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... critics themselves have ever come to the consideration of Shakespeare's text , uncon- sciously prepossessed by the perverted stage impressions of their youth , or by interpreta- tions of their critical predecessors , derived through the ...
... critics themselves have ever come to the consideration of Shakespeare's text , uncon- sciously prepossessed by the perverted stage impressions of their youth , or by interpreta- tions of their critical predecessors , derived through the ...
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... critics of the day . No wonder that they performed the latter task in strict accordance with the spirit in which they exe ... critic would find itself all at once in a state for considering , with judgment unwarped and dis- cernment ...
... critics of the day . No wonder that they performed the latter task in strict accordance with the spirit in which they exe ... critic would find itself all at once in a state for considering , with judgment unwarped and dis- cernment ...
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... critics , fol- lowing habitually in the track of their prede- cessors , continue to judge the great dramatist by canons to which he is not amenable , - but , having their intellectual vision uncon- sciously blinded or confused by the ...
... critics , fol- lowing habitually in the track of their prede- cessors , continue to judge the great dramatist by canons to which he is not amenable , - but , having their intellectual vision uncon- sciously blinded or confused by the ...
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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 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 178 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
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 - 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 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.
Página 312 - At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light, But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 130 - To be thus is nothing ; But to be safely thus. — Our fears in Banquo Stick deep ; and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd : 't is much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.