Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volume 4Smith, Elder & Company, 1884 - 668 pagina's |
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... exhibited the whole of its exuberant life together with an important stage of European culture in its theatre . Confined within the strictest chronological limits ( 1580-1630 ) , the period embraced by such a study does not exceed fifty ...
... exhibited the whole of its exuberant life together with an important stage of European culture in its theatre . Confined within the strictest chronological limits ( 1580-1630 ) , the period embraced by such a study does not exceed fifty ...
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... exhibited in the growth , exhausted in the season of decline . Critical biography sets itself to find the man himself , what made him operative , what hampered him in action , what , after all the injuries of chance and age , survives ...
... exhibited in the growth , exhausted in the season of decline . Critical biography sets itself to find the man himself , what made him operative , what hampered him in action , what , after all the injuries of chance and age , survives ...
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... I. Ar all periods of history the stage has been a mirror of the age and race in which it has arisen . Dramatic poets more than any other artists reproduce the life of men around them ; exhibiting their aims , hopes , 23.
... I. Ar all periods of history the stage has been a mirror of the age and race in which it has arisen . Dramatic poets more than any other artists reproduce the life of men around them ; exhibiting their aims , hopes , 23.
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John Addington Symonds. men around them ; exhibiting their aims , hopes , wishes , aspirations , passions , in an abstract more intensely coloured than the diffuse facts of daily experience . It is the function of all artistic genius to ...
John Addington Symonds. men around them ; exhibiting their aims , hopes , wishes , aspirations , passions , in an abstract more intensely coloured than the diffuse facts of daily experience . It is the function of all artistic genius to ...
Pagina 46
... exhibited upon the theatre in ' Titus Andronicus . ' It is needless to multiply such details . The grossness of passion in that age , whether displayed in brutal and unbridled lust , or in hate , cruelty , and torture , was more than we ...
... exhibited upon the theatre in ' Titus Andronicus . ' It is needless to multiply such details . The grossness of passion in that age , whether displayed in brutal and unbridled lust , or in hate , cruelty , and torture , was more than we ...
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Pagina 57 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Pagina 226 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Pagina 593 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Pagina 515 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
Pagina 49 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Pagina 319 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Pagina 615 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?— Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Pagina 388 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Pagina 434 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Pagina 49 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...