Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters : with an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England, Volume 1Ginn, 1872 - English drama |
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... effect of an actual marriage . Serious evils , however , some- times grew out of it ; and the Church of England did wisely , no doubt , in uniting the troth - plight and the marriage in one and the same ceremony . Whether such solemn be ...
... effect of an actual marriage . Serious evils , however , some- times grew out of it ; and the Church of England did wisely , no doubt , in uniting the troth - plight and the marriage in one and the same ceremony . Whether such solemn be ...
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... effect of his cunning labours was beginning even then to be felt by his senior fellows in that line . Allowing him to have entered the theatre in 1586 , when he was twenty - two years of age , he must have made good use of his time ...
... effect of his cunning labours was beginning even then to be felt by his senior fellows in that line . Allowing him to have entered the theatre in 1586 , when he was twenty - two years of age , he must have made good use of his time ...
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... effect his purpose of retirement is not precisely known ; nor can I stay to trace out the argument on that point . The probability is , that he ceased to be an actor in the Summer of 1604. The preceding year , 1603 , Ben Jonson's ...
... effect his purpose of retirement is not precisely known ; nor can I stay to trace out the argument on that point . The probability is , that he ceased to be an actor in the Summer of 1604. The preceding year , 1603 , Ben Jonson's ...
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... effect , as nothing more is heard of it . This item is interesting , as it shows the Poet engaged in other pursuits than those relating to the stage . We have seen how , in 1598 , Alderman Sturly was for " moving him to deal in the ...
... effect , as nothing more is heard of it . This item is interesting , as it shows the Poet engaged in other pursuits than those relating to the stage . We have seen how , in 1598 , Alderman Sturly was for " moving him to deal in the ...
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... effect thus being to approve the strength of the common principles that underlie and support them . These principles cover the whole ground of difference from the Classic Drama . The several varieties , therefore , of the Gothic Drama ...
... effect thus being to approve the strength of the common principles that underlie and support them . These principles cover the whole ground of difference from the Classic Drama . The several varieties , therefore , of the Gothic Drama ...
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Page 231 - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 39 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 199 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies...
Page 143 - The form is mechanic, when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material, — as when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever shape we wish it to retain when hardened. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate; it shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fulness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form.
Page 31 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 25 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 25 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell...
Page 219 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 291 - Christian is ? if you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 200 - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows.