 The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not...  Miscellanies - Seite 47von Stephen Collins - 1842 - 308 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 Seiten
...concomitant with Shakspeare ? — A kindred mind ! * * * 'The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest...lago — we think not so much of the crimes which tliey commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 Seiten
...profound, the witty, accomplished Richard? The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare arc so much th* Objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity...great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even /ago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit,... | |
 | 1815 - 558 Seiten
...— the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there ii a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
 | 1815 - 628 Seiten
...the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the ol)jects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer; there is a cerlnin fitness between his neck and... | |
 | 1815 - 554 Seiten
...— the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest...so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the amhition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap thosft Dioral... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 Seiten
...— the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather, than of interest...great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even logo, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit,... | |
 | 1821 - 420 Seiten
...productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the object* of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity...intellectual activity,. which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * ' * » " So to see Lear acted,— to see an old man tottering about the... | |
 | 1821 - 410 Seiten
...with the commonest productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while wo are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 Seiten
...with the commonest productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest...their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters— Macbeth, Richard, evea lago — we think not so much of the crimes... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 340 Seiten
...rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." * * » * " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage... | |
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