National Review, Volume 6Robert Theobold, 1858 - Great Britain |
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Page 125
... Silent Woman , Done by Ben Jonson , and outdone by no man . " These stand quite apart from all his other efforts , —from the freer but less matured and less characteristic efforts of his ear- lier years , such as The Case is altered ...
... Silent Woman , Done by Ben Jonson , and outdone by no man . " These stand quite apart from all his other efforts , —from the freer but less matured and less characteristic efforts of his ear- lier years , such as The Case is altered ...
Page 127
... Silent Woman - the dénouement lies absolutely hidden up to the very last scene , and is then made with singular sharpness and clearness ; the knot seems cut by a razor rather than disentangled . The unities are ob- served with great but ...
... Silent Woman - the dénouement lies absolutely hidden up to the very last scene , and is then made with singular sharpness and clearness ; the knot seems cut by a razor rather than disentangled . The unities are ob- served with great but ...
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... Silent Woman is far pleasanter ; lighter , freer , more humane . Its being in prose , instead of Jonson's usual prosaic verse , gives it a great advantage . It is the prototype of such comedies as She stoops to conquer , or The School ...
... Silent Woman is far pleasanter ; lighter , freer , more humane . Its being in prose , instead of Jonson's usual prosaic verse , gives it a great advantage . It is the prototype of such comedies as She stoops to conquer , or The School ...
Page 132
... Silent Woman , on the contrary , though , curi- ously enough , founded on a hint from a Greek sophist , and full of ... silent barber , and servants who answer him only by mute signs . He is on the look - out for a dumb wife , with the ...
... Silent Woman , on the contrary , though , curi- ously enough , founded on a hint from a Greek sophist , and full of ... silent barber , and servants who answer him only by mute signs . He is on the look - out for a dumb wife , with the ...
Page 133
... Silent Lady that very day , and has sent Cutbeard for her and a parson . The Silent Woman's interview with Morose is admirable . He admires her beauty and modesty , his only difficulty is that she can scarcely be made to speak at all ...
... Silent Lady that very day , and has sent Cutbeard for her and a parson . The Silent Woman's interview with Morose is admirable . He admires her beauty and modesty , his only difficulty is that she can scarcely be made to speak at all ...
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Page 192 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 124 - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 141 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 193 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 192 - What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 123 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Page 124 - Sufflaminandus erat,' as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 141 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 464 - Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps, And my heart ever gazes on the depth Of thy deep mysteries. I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee, Hoping to still these obstinate questionings Of thee and thine, by forcing some lone ghost Thy messenger, to render up the tale Of what we are.
Page 96 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.