Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 ページ |
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... less trustworthy than those which are contemporary . Lyttelton remarked that a veneration for Shakespeare seems to be a part of the national religion , and the only part in which even men of sense are fanatics ; 1 and Gibbon spoke of ...
... less trustworthy than those which are contemporary . Lyttelton remarked that a veneration for Shakespeare seems to be a part of the national religion , and the only part in which even men of sense are fanatics ; 1 and Gibbon spoke of ...
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... less ready to pardon the " monstrous absurdi- ties " of Shakespeare , as one or two plays , such as the Tempest , are " very near a regularity . ' Yet he acknow- ledges that Shakespeare abounds in beauties , and he makes some reparation ...
... less ready to pardon the " monstrous absurdi- ties " of Shakespeare , as one or two plays , such as the Tempest , are " very near a regularity . ' Yet he acknow- ledges that Shakespeare abounds in beauties , and he makes some reparation ...
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... less confident is a note on Love's Labour's Lost : " Besides the exact regularity of the rules of art , which the author has happened to preserve in some few of his pieces , this is demonstration , I think , that though he has more fre ...
... less confident is a note on Love's Labour's Lost : " Besides the exact regularity of the rules of art , which the author has happened to preserve in some few of his pieces , this is demonstration , I think , that though he has more fre ...
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... less about the rules . Johnson had performed a great service for that class of critics . whose deference to learned opinion kept them from saying fully what they felt . The lesser men had not been at their ease when they referred to ...
... less about the rules . Johnson had performed a great service for that class of critics . whose deference to learned opinion kept them from saying fully what they felt . The lesser men had not been at their ease when they referred to ...
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... less Greek . " Rowe believes that his acquaintance with Latin authors was such as he might have gained at school he could remember tags of Horace or Mantuan , but was unable to read Plautus in the original . The plea that comparative ...
... less Greek . " Rowe believes that his acquaintance with Latin authors was such as he might have gained at school he could remember tags of Horace or Mantuan , but was unable to read Plautus in the original . The plea that comparative ...
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103 ページ - 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 ecstasies 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.
7 ページ - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
lxii ページ - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
110 ページ - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
103 ページ - Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world...
101 ページ - ... always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
121 ページ - perhaps we are not to look for his beginning, like those of other writers, in his least perfect works ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did that for aught I know," says he, " the performances of his youth, as they were the most vigorous, were the best.
106 ページ - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
109 ページ - ... while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur, and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it. Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is subtle, or the image always great where the V/V line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected, and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the attention, to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures.
112 ページ - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.