 We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them ! The one set become living men and women...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Pagina 238door Thomas Carlyle - 1860Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 466 pagina’s
...were a long chapter to unfold the difference in drawing a character between a Scott, a Shakspeare, and a Goethe ? Yet it is a difference literally immense...never getting near the heart of them ! The one set became living men and women; the other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1891 - 464 pagina’s
...any time altogether deficient ; though at no time can we call him, in the best sense, successful. His Baillie Jarvies, Dinmonts, Dalgettys (for their name...Compare Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which, it was once said, Scott had ' done Goethe the honour' to borrow. He has borrowed what he could of Mignon. The small... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 pagina’s
...We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his character from the heart outwards : your Scott fashions them...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." This assertion of a difference in kind, I consider very far from doing justice to Scott. I fully believe... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 458 pagina’s
...character between a Scott, and a Shakspeare, a Goethe. Yet it is a difference literally immense ; they arc of different species ; the value of the one is not...Compare Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which, it was once said, Scott had ' done Goethe the honour' to borrow. He has borrowed what he could of Mignon. The small... | |
 | 1880 - 556 pagina’s
...the coin of the other. We might say in a short word, which covers a long matter, that our Shakespeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ;...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons."* And then he goes on to contrast Fenella in Peveril of the Peak with Goethe's Mignon. Mr. Carlyle could... | |
 | James Crabb Watt - 1880 - 320 pagina’s
...successors, who all deal with the intense present, and intense reality. SaidCarlyle: " Your Shakespere fashions his characters from the heart outwards ;...inwards, never getting near the heart of them." The justice of this judgment has been only feebly impugned. It is because he seldom gets near the heart,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 406 pagina’s
...nearer the heart of them." "The one set," Mr. Carlyle says, meaning the creations of Shakspeare, " become living men and women ; the other amount to...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." " Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating in any shape... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 362 pagina’s
...nearer the heart of them." " The one set," Mr. Carlyle says, meaning the creations of Shakespeare, " become living men and women ; the other amount to...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." " Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating in any shape!"... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 88 pagina’s
...the coin of the other. We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakespeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ;...Compare Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which, it was once said, Scott had 'done Goethe the honour' to borrow. He has borrowed what he could of Mignon. The small... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 494 pagina’s
...nomini di grossa pasta: Tu iei piu tondo che F 0 di Giotto." — Vasari, Vtte (Roma, 1759). i. 46. more ; yet for another sort of reader, much. It were...Compare Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which, it was once said, Scott had " done Goethe the honor " to borrow. He has borrowed what he could of Mignon. The small... | |
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