Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters : with an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Growth of the Drama in England, Volume 1Ginn, 1872 |
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... Malvolio was with a genu- ine love of Virtue : like that hero of conceit , he is merely " sick of self - love , and tastes with a distempered appetite . " And his giddiness of self - love will take from him the power of seeing things as ...
... Malvolio was with a genu- ine love of Virtue : like that hero of conceit , he is merely " sick of self - love , and tastes with a distempered appetite . " And his giddiness of self - love will take from him the power of seeing things as ...
Page 352
... Malvolio is at the height of his ludicrous beatitude , Maria says of him , " He does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map , with the augmentation of the Indies . " In 1598 was published an English version of ...
... Malvolio is at the height of his ludicrous beatitude , Maria says of him , " He does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map , with the augmentation of the Indies . " In 1598 was published an English version of ...
Page 353
... Malvolio was partly meant as a satire on that remarkable people . That the Poet should be somewhat provoked at their action in bringing about such tight restraints upon the freedom of his art , was certainly natural enough . Nor is it a ...
... Malvolio was partly meant as a satire on that remarkable people . That the Poet should be somewhat provoked at their action in bringing about such tight restraints upon the freedom of his art , was certainly natural enough . Nor is it a ...
Page 355
... Malvolio is a happy adaptation . All which fully establishes the connection between the Italian comedy and the English . But it does not follow necessarily that the foreign original was used by Shakespeare ; so much of the lighter ...
... Malvolio is a happy adaptation . All which fully establishes the connection between the Italian comedy and the English . But it does not follow necessarily that the foreign original was used by Shakespeare ; so much of the lighter ...
Page 360
... Malvolio is really a man of no little talent and accomplishment , as he is also one of marked skill , fidelity , and rectitude in his calling ; so that he would be a right worthy person all round , but for his inordinate craving " to be ...
... Malvolio is really a man of no little talent and accomplishment , as he is also one of marked skill , fidelity , and rectitude in his calling ; so that he would be a right worthy person all round , but for his inordinate craving " to be ...
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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.