Introduction to ShakespeareBlackie & Son, 1893 - 136 Seiten |
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... expression of dramatic passion or to the control of that expression . The prose of lively dialogue , with quick turns of wit and repartee , which we find in the first comedies of Shakespeare , was in large measure derived from Lyly ...
... expression of dramatic passion or to the control of that expression . The prose of lively dialogue , with quick turns of wit and repartee , which we find in the first comedies of Shakespeare , was in large measure derived from Lyly ...
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... expression of strong feeling swelled into bombast , it was easy to perceive that the play must be of an early or comparatively early date . If the structure of the play and the grouping of the characters were stiff and symmetrical , it ...
... expression of strong feeling swelled into bombast , it was easy to perceive that the play must be of an early or comparatively early date . If the structure of the play and the grouping of the characters were stiff and symmetrical , it ...
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... expression of dramatic feeling ; having employed rhyme at first freely , and then with reserve , he finally dis- carded it altogether . At the same time his blank verse underwent various changes , which may all be summed up in the ...
... expression of dramatic feeling ; having employed rhyme at first freely , and then with reserve , he finally dis- carded it altogether . At the same time his blank verse underwent various changes , which may all be summed up in the ...
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... expression , as Tamburlaine itself . " The protagonist , as in the tragedies of Marlowe , is thrust forward and domi- nates the whole play . Its opening is in the manner of Marlowe — an exordium in the form of a soliloquy . The ...
... expression , as Tamburlaine itself . " The protagonist , as in the tragedies of Marlowe , is thrust forward and domi- nates the whole play . Its opening is in the manner of Marlowe — an exordium in the form of a soliloquy . The ...
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... expressions in the text because they seemed to him vulgar , and others because the versification did not conform to his ideas of harmony . Comparatively little of his labour was spent in research , but some of the conjectural ...
... expressions in the text because they seemed to him vulgar , and others because the versification did not conform to his ideas of harmony . Comparatively little of his labour was spent in research , but some of the conjectural ...
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Seite 64 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Seite 10 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Seite 31 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Seite 136 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Seite 132 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 97 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Seite 18 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shakescene in a countrie.
Seite 129 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Seite 74 - But there seems to have been a period of Shakspeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience ; the memory of hours misspent, the pang of affection mis-placed or unrequited, the experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen...