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 - 206 pàgines |
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Pàgina 18
... tion and constancy so predominant , as in that of Juliet . Eloise , all Voltaire's characters , Cleo- patra , even those warm and winning fairy - forms from the voluptuous hand of Byron , fade and shrink before it . Juliet is all love ...
... tion and constancy so predominant , as in that of Juliet . Eloise , all Voltaire's characters , Cleo- patra , even those warm and winning fairy - forms from the voluptuous hand of Byron , fade and shrink before it . Juliet is all love ...
Pàgina 49
... tion of the first line . Second , the inattention which is paid to the metre . A musical ear will instantly perceive the disparity of the numbers in the songs of Ophelia , and in this verse it is only the second and fourth lines which ...
... tion of the first line . Second , the inattention which is paid to the metre . A musical ear will instantly perceive the disparity of the numbers in the songs of Ophelia , and in this verse it is only the second and fourth lines which ...
Pàgina 50
... tion , he writes as if he almost forgot metre , for , when did madness study ? Listen to the wild but touching mournfulness - the irregular but over- whelming sorrow that his fingers strike from this harp of beauty , in the following ...
... tion , he writes as if he almost forgot metre , for , when did madness study ? Listen to the wild but touching mournfulness - the irregular but over- whelming sorrow that his fingers strike from this harp of beauty , in the following ...
Pàgina 63
... judgment of a male critic on the plot , the characters , the passions , the incident , the dialogue , the conduct of the play ; my ear has been disgusted with some trite and idle exclama- tion of ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . 63.
... judgment of a male critic on the plot , the characters , the passions , the incident , the dialogue , the conduct of the play ; my ear has been disgusted with some trite and idle exclama- tion of ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE . 63.
Pàgina 64
... tion of praise in dilating on some bombastic pas- sage , whose chief excellence is , that it has a number of sounding words , heterogeneously strung together to serve as a cumbersome unadapted dress to " some unmeaning thing they call a ...
... tion of praise in dilating on some bombastic pas- sage , whose chief excellence is , that it has a number of sounding words , heterogeneously strung together to serve as a cumbersome unadapted dress to " some unmeaning thing they call a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.