An Essay on the Genius of Shakespeare: With Critical Remarks on the Characters of Romeo, Hamlet, Juliet, and Ophelia ; Together with Some Observations on the Writings of Sir Walter Scott. To which is Annexed, A Letter to Lord -----, Containing a Critique on Taste, Judgment, and Rhetorical Expression, and Remarks on the Leading Actors of the Day ...J. Bigg, 1826 - 206 pàgines |
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Pàgina 120
... present day for both of these . I know no- thing better than the manner of Mr. Peel for the first ; and for the last , Canning is a special ex- ample . The first is a most desirable and winning quality . Without it , speech is almost ...
... present day for both of these . I know no- thing better than the manner of Mr. Peel for the first ; and for the last , Canning is a special ex- ample . The first is a most desirable and winning quality . Without it , speech is almost ...
Pàgina 128
... present day , that I intend satirizing them , and that I shall publish it " after convenience . " If it were possible for any of them to know me by sight , it would be the prettiest little farce in the world to see them go on as above ...
... present day , that I intend satirizing them , and that I shall publish it " after convenience . " If it were possible for any of them to know me by sight , it would be the prettiest little farce in the world to see them go on as above ...
Pàgina 129
... present day . But wit is per- fectly essential ( and a sine qua non ) in the hands of any one who aspires to be a ... gift ; so rare , that I shall fail in it . But one man ( since the death of the giant Byron ) is gifted with it - the ...
... present day . But wit is per- fectly essential ( and a sine qua non ) in the hands of any one who aspires to be a ... gift ; so rare , that I shall fail in it . But one man ( since the death of the giant Byron ) is gifted with it - the ...
Pàgina 131
... PRESENT DAY . Strange as it may appear ( to those who form schools of acting , ) yet I must distinctly assert , that study is the ruin of the actor . It , perhaps , will appear still stranger , when I assert , ( and am prepared to ...
... PRESENT DAY . Strange as it may appear ( to those who form schools of acting , ) yet I must distinctly assert , that study is the ruin of the actor . It , perhaps , will appear still stranger , when I assert , ( and am prepared to ...
Pàgina 142
... present day ; and I made some remarks on one of the epheme- ral dramas . " Do not blame it , Sir , said the critic , it is a capital one - for the present day ! " I remained silent . The remark seemed unanswerable . I am ready to ...
... present day ; and I made some remarks on one of the epheme- ral dramas . " Do not blame it , Sir , said the critic , it is a capital one - for the present day ! " I remained silent . The remark seemed unanswerable . I am ready to ...
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Pàgina 14 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Pàgina 60 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Pàgina 140 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Pàgina 140 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 12 - What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Pàgina 15 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Pàgina 15 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Pàgina 21 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Pàgina 39 - With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. — Soft you, now ! The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Pàgina 15 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.