The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volum 2 |
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Pàgina 22
The doctrine of the middle ages , that all spirits , and especially subterranei , were under the influence , if not immediate agents , of the devil , was a little puzzling when it came to be applied to the pagan notion of the return of ...
The doctrine of the middle ages , that all spirits , and especially subterranei , were under the influence , if not immediate agents , of the devil , was a little puzzling when it came to be applied to the pagan notion of the return of ...
Pàgina 23
... that I have seen , May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea , and perhaps , Out of my weakness , and my melancholy , ( As he is very potent with such spirits , ) Abuses me to damn me .
... that I have seen , May be a devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea , and perhaps , Out of my weakness , and my melancholy , ( As he is very potent with such spirits , ) Abuses me to damn me .
Pàgina 28
Horatio was scholar * , and , as such , his adjuration was particularly potent ; in conformity with the principle that assigned an absolute power over the devil to the learned magician , and directed the exorcism of troubled spirits in ...
Horatio was scholar * , and , as such , his adjuration was particularly potent ; in conformity with the principle that assigned an absolute power over the devil to the learned magician , and directed the exorcism of troubled spirits in ...
Pàgina 31
If not actually under the influence of the devil , all orders of spirits were deemed evil , at the least , for all , more or less , partook of the crime that banished them from heaven . Hence the idea of darkness was connected with ...
If not actually under the influence of the devil , all orders of spirits were deemed evil , at the least , for all , more or less , partook of the crime that banished them from heaven . Hence the idea of darkness was connected with ...
Pàgina 79
and what delight shall she have to look upon the devil ? ” In want of “ sympathy in years , manners and beauties , her delicate tenderness will find itself abused , begin to heave the gorge , disrelish and abhor the Moor ; very nature ...
and what delight shall she have to look upon the devil ? ” In want of “ sympathy in years , manners and beauties , her delicate tenderness will find itself abused , begin to heave the gorge , disrelish and abhor the Moor ; very nature ...
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Pàgina 18 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Pàgina 11 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Pàgina 145 - tis strange ; — And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Pàgina 170 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Pàgina 10 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness...
Pàgina 178 - Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Pàgina 142 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Pàgina 33 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans
Pàgina 179 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife ! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ; Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Pàgina 203 - How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? that; And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volum 2 The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Augustine Skottowe |
| Autor | Augustine Skottowe |
| Editor | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
| Original de | Universitat de Harvard |
| Digitalitzat el | 9 Febr. 2006 |
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