An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; with Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireHarding, 1810 - 296 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... murder , would not have been endured in any country , where taste had not been absolutely perverted . Mr. Voltaire has the candour to own , this is a bad Tragedy ; but Corneille tells us , it was his good fortune to find it the general ...
... murder , would not have been endured in any country , where taste had not been absolutely perverted . Mr. Voltaire has the candour to own , this is a bad Tragedy ; but Corneille tells us , it was his good fortune to find it the general ...
Pàgina 97
... murders and treasons , learn for once , froni rude and illiterate Shakspeare , how averse pride is coolly to confess , and prudence to betray , what the fever and deliriums of ambition have prompted us to do . Falstaffe appears with his ...
... murders and treasons , learn for once , froni rude and illiterate Shakspeare , how averse pride is coolly to confess , and prudence to betray , what the fever and deliriums of ambition have prompted us to do . Falstaffe appears with his ...
Pàgina 108
... murders she has committed , and those she still intends to commit , to her waiting - women , for whose parts she expresses at the same time a so- vereign contempt . Here Here I cannot help taking notice , that as the 108 THE SECOND PART ...
... murders she has committed , and those she still intends to commit , to her waiting - women , for whose parts she expresses at the same time a so- vereign contempt . Here Here I cannot help taking notice , that as the 108 THE SECOND PART ...
Pàgina 109
... murder his mistress , the other the son to murder his mother . Here again an instance offers itself of our Shakspeare's su- perior knowledge of the heart of man . King John wishes to instigate Hubert to kill prince Arthur : but observe ...
... murder his mistress , the other the son to murder his mother . Here again an instance offers itself of our Shakspeare's su- perior knowledge of the heart of man . King John wishes to instigate Hubert to kill prince Arthur : but observe ...
Pàgina 137
... murder ; then other circumstances of a special , and inferior kind , were not to have any weight . I am inclined to think this tragedy is a mixture of history and allegory . Eschylus affected the allegorical manner so much , as to form ...
... murder ; then other circumstances of a special , and inferior kind , were not to have any weight . I am inclined to think this tragedy is a mixture of history and allegory . Eschylus affected the allegorical manner so much , as to form ...
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1810 |
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspeare: Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització de fragments - 1966 |
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització de fragments - 1966 |
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Pàgina 231 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Pàgina 238 - Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Pàgina 173 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Pàgina 240 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Pàgina 226 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Pàgina 244 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Pàgina 148 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Pàgina 237 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Pàgina 239 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus- is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Pàgina 240 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men; Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.