Human Life in ShakespeareLee and Shepard, 1887 - 286 pages |
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Page 37
... wonder at the hairs which theologians split ; you think of the Liliputians , and the mortal feuds which characterized the strife between their Big- endians and their Little - endians , and thus you lose yourself in your own meditations ...
... wonder at the hairs which theologians split ; you think of the Liliputians , and the mortal feuds which characterized the strife between their Big- endians and their Little - endians , and thus you lose yourself in your own meditations ...
Page 43
... world has to him meanings endless and number- less ; thence it becomes to him a vast vocabulary , from which he forms , as he chooses , his wonder- ful dialect of pictures and analogies ; the very soul INFLUENCE OF SHAKESPEARE . 43.
... world has to him meanings endless and number- less ; thence it becomes to him a vast vocabulary , from which he forms , as he chooses , his wonder- ful dialect of pictures and analogies ; the very soul INFLUENCE OF SHAKESPEARE . 43.
Page 46
... wonder of his observing faculty is not simply in the vast- ness of its range , or in the sharpness of its vision ; but in an intuitive sagacity , which often antici- pates discoveries of science , — science equally as it applies to ...
... wonder of his observing faculty is not simply in the vast- ness of its range , or in the sharpness of its vision ; but in an intuitive sagacity , which often antici- pates discoveries of science , — science equally as it applies to ...
Page 55
... wonder not that past comedy should become to us thus strange . But tragedy , it is asserted , deals with primitive emotions , and can- ee -- not thus become obsolete with the lapse of time INFLUENCE OF SHAKESPEARE . 55.
... wonder not that past comedy should become to us thus strange . But tragedy , it is asserted , deals with primitive emotions , and can- ee -- not thus become obsolete with the lapse of time INFLUENCE OF SHAKESPEARE . 55.
Page 74
... wonder - monger , a trickster , a liar , and a thief ; yet he is greatly to our liking : but in common life he would cease to be an instrument of humor . He would simply be a rascal , and would deserve contempt as well as punishment ...
... wonder - monger , a trickster , a liar , and a thief ; yet he is greatly to our liking : but in common life he would cease to be an instrument of humor . He would simply be a rascal , and would deserve contempt as well as punishment ...
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