Biographies [of] Shakespeare, Pope, Goethe, and Schiller, and On the political parities of modern EnglandA. & C. Black, 1863 |
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... critics , Steevens , and Malone , have endeavoured to solve the difficulty by cutting it with a falsehood . They deny in effect that he was illustrious in the century succeeding to his own , however much he has since become so . We ...
... critics , Steevens , and Malone , have endeavoured to solve the difficulty by cutting it with a falsehood . They deny in effect that he was illustrious in the century succeeding to his own , however much he has since become so . We ...
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... critic , who cites this passage from Steevens , pursues the hypothesis as follows : - " In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become a little obsolete . In the beginning of the last cen- tury , Lord ...
... critic , who cites this passage from Steevens , pursues the hypothesis as follows : - " In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become a little obsolete . In the beginning of the last cen- tury , Lord ...
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Thomas De Quincey. these three critics which is not virtually in the very teeth of the truth . To begin with Mr Nahum Tate : -This poor grub of literature , if he did really speak of Lear as " an obscure piece , recommended to his notice ...
Thomas De Quincey. these three critics which is not virtually in the very teeth of the truth . To begin with Mr Nahum Tate : -This poor grub of literature , if he did really speak of Lear as " an obscure piece , recommended to his notice ...
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... critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to " the author of the ' Tatler , " " contemporary with all these editors . The truth is , Addison was well aware of Shak- speare's hold on the popular mind ; too well aware of it ...
... critic who could , in support of such a thesis , refer to " the author of the ' Tatler , " " contemporary with all these editors . The truth is , Addison was well aware of Shak- speare's hold on the popular mind ; too well aware of it ...
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... critics , living nearly three centuries from his time , undertake to know his affairs better than himself , and to tax him with either inaccuracy or falsehood . No man would be at leisure to court heraldic honours when he knew himself ...
... critics , living nearly three centuries from his time , undertake to know his affairs better than himself , and to tax him with either inaccuracy or falsehood . No man would be at leisure to court heraldic honours when he knew himself ...
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Page 46 - 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 : For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Page 14 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 43 - Shagspere, one thone ptie" [on the one party], " and Anne Hathwey of Stratford, in the diocess of Worcester, maiden, may lawfully solemnize matrimony together; and in the same afterwards remaine and continew like man and wiffe.
Page 119 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 72 - Shakspeare all is presented in the concrete ; that is to say, not brought forward in relief, as by some effort of an anatomical artist ; but embodied and imbedded, so to speak, as by the force of a creative nature, in the complex system of a human life ; a life in which all the elements move and play simultaneously, and with something more than mere simultaneity or- co-existence, acting and re-acting each upon the other, nay, even acting by each other and through each other. In...
Page 142 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 217 - ... and it was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that the cramping effects of monopoly were experienced.
Page 68 - I have heard that Mr Shakespeare was a natural wit, without any art at all; he frequented the plays all his younger time, but in his elder days lived at Stratford: and supplied the stage with 2 plays every year, and for that had an allowance so large, that hee spent at the Rate of al,000/ a year, as I have heard.
Page 130 - I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Page 77 - ... mysterious ends. Man, no longer the representative of an august will — man, the passion-puppet of fate, could not with any effect display what we call a character which is a distinction between man and man, emanating originally from the will, and expressing its determinations, moving under the large variety of human impulses. The will is the central pivot of character, and this was obliterated, thwarted, cancelled by the dark fatalism which brooded over the Grecian stage.