The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Том 2C. and J. Ollier, 1818 |
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... sense of their presence ? We might as well laugh under a consciousness of the principle of Evil himself being truly and really present with us . But attempt to bring these beings on to a stage , ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES . 29.
... sense of their presence ? We might as well laugh under a consciousness of the principle of Evil himself being truly and really present with us . But attempt to bring these beings on to a stage , ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES . 29.
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... deities , passionate mortals - Claius , and Medorus , and Amintas , and Amarillis . My leading design was , to illustrate what may be called the moral sense of our an- Characters of Dramatic Writers contemporary with Shakspeare.
... deities , passionate mortals - Claius , and Medorus , and Amintas , and Amarillis . My leading design was , to illustrate what may be called the moral sense of our an- Characters of Dramatic Writers contemporary with Shakspeare.
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In Two Parts Charles Lamb. what may be called the moral sense of our an- cestors . To shew in what manner they felt , when they placed themselves by the power of imagination in trying circumstances , in the con- flicts of duty and ...
In Two Parts Charles Lamb. what may be called the moral sense of our an- cestors . To shew in what manner they felt , when they placed themselves by the power of imagination in trying circumstances , in the con- flicts of duty and ...
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... sense , somewhat a greater delicacy of perception in questions of right and wrong , than goes to the writing of two or three hackneyed sentences about the laws of honour as opposed to the laws of the land , or a common - place against ...
... sense , somewhat a greater delicacy of perception in questions of right and wrong , than goes to the writing of two or three hackneyed sentences about the laws of honour as opposed to the laws of the land , or a common - place against ...
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... sense into the absurd . He makes his readers glow , weep , tremble , take any affection which he pleases , be moved by words , or in spite of them , be disgusted and overcome their disgust . FRANCIS BEAUMONT . - JOHN FLETCHER . Maid's ...
... sense into the absurd . He makes his readers glow , weep , tremble , take any affection which he pleases , be moved by words , or in spite of them , be disgusted and overcome their disgust . FRANCIS BEAUMONT . - JOHN FLETCHER . Maid's ...
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The Works of Charles Lamb, Vol. 2: Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays ... Charles Lamb Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2018 |
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1st Footman 1st Gentleman 1st Lady 1st Waiter 2d Footman 2d Gentleman 2d Lady 2d Waiter 4th Lady 5th Waiter acting appetite beauty Belvil better character countenance creature crime curiosity deformity delight express eye of mind face fancy feel genius Gin Lane give Hamlet hang heart Hogarth Hogsflesh honour horror human humour images imagination Industry and Idle innocence John Tomkins Landlord Lear less look Lord Madam Maid melancholy Melesinda Middleton mind mirth moral Mother Damnable nature ness never old lady Othello passion PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY person PHILIP MASSINGER picture pity plate play pleasure poet poor Rake's Progress Reflector Satires scene seems sense servants Shakspeare shew shewn sion sort soul speak spectators stage suffer sweet Tamburlaine thing THOMAS MIDDLETON thought tion tragedy ture virtue WILLIAM ROWLEY Wither woman wonder
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Сторінка 19 - 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...
Сторінка 142 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Сторінка 37 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Сторінка 25 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.
Сторінка 86 - Doctors, and their servants (so that the remnant of the body would not hold out a bone amongst so many hands), take what was left out of the grave, and burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook...
Сторінка 64 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Сторінка 26 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending.
Сторінка 22 - The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences.
Сторінка 183 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Сторінка 4 - But such is the instantaneous nature of the impressions which we take in at the eye and ear at a playhouse, compared with the slow apprehension often-times of the understanding in reading, that we are apt not only to sink the play-writer in the consideration which we pay to the actor, but even to identify in our minds in a perverse manner the actor with the character which he represents. It is difficult for a frequent play-goer to disembarrass the idea of Hamlet from the person and voice of Mr K[emble]....