Notes on Shakespeare's WorkmanshipH. Holt, 1917 - 338 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... lines - scarcely more than half the length of Hamlet . We may attribute this brevity in part - and we shall attribute it rightly -— to its simplicity of plot , but that does not matter ; or , rather , it goes all to Macbeth's credit ...
... lines - scarcely more than half the length of Hamlet . We may attribute this brevity in part - and we shall attribute it rightly -— to its simplicity of plot , but that does not matter ; or , rather , it goes all to Macbeth's credit ...
Pagina 20
... lines 32-113 admittedly holds the clou of the poem : O ! thou that , with surpassing glory crown'd— Still thinking of Shakespeare and of Milton - of Satan and of Macbeth - let us ponder every line : but espe- cially these : - Lifted up ...
... lines 32-113 admittedly holds the clou of the poem : O ! thou that , with surpassing glory crown'd— Still thinking of Shakespeare and of Milton - of Satan and of Macbeth - let us ponder every line : but espe- cially these : - Lifted up ...
Pagina 26
... line 1 - nay , before it : on the stage direction , " Enter Three Witches . " Says he : In order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merits of a writer , it is always necessary to examine the spirit of his age and the opinions ...
... line 1 - nay , before it : on the stage direction , " Enter Three Witches . " Says he : In order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merits of a writer , it is always necessary to examine the spirit of his age and the opinions ...
Pagina 44
... intensely , and therefore they do not produce that sense of unique personality which Shakespeare could con- vey in a much smaller number of lines than he gives to most of them . And this is , of 44 SHAKESPEARE'S WORKMANSHIP.
... intensely , and therefore they do not produce that sense of unique personality which Shakespeare could con- vey in a much smaller number of lines than he gives to most of them . And this is , of 44 SHAKESPEARE'S WORKMANSHIP.
Pagina 46
... lines are too young , perhaps , to have yet suffered a great tension such as must sooner or later befall every man , though his life be ever so happy . He who has not known that tension , stretched maybe over weeks , say by the almost ...
... lines are too young , perhaps , to have yet suffered a great tension such as must sooner or later befall every man , though his life be ever so happy . He who has not known that tension , stretched maybe over weeks , say by the almost ...
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Pagina 267 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Pagina 172 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the 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...
Pagina 293 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Pagina 119 - To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Pagina 322 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Pagina 106 - Good morrow, fool,' quoth I : ' No, sir,' quoth he, ' Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune. ' And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, ' It is ten o'clock : Thus may we see...
Pagina 108 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Pagina 153 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Pagina 147 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Pagina 190 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...