The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23Saunders and Otley, 1838 |
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Page 143
... Portia's love and Antonio's friendship ; but others beside the heroine and her chosen one command and obtain our sympathy- the generous Antonio , whose honour , liberality , and prejudices render him the type of an English merchant ...
... Portia's love and Antonio's friendship ; but others beside the heroine and her chosen one command and obtain our sympathy- the generous Antonio , whose honour , liberality , and prejudices render him the type of an English merchant ...
Page 144
... Portia . study , while throwing light on one particular subject , will necessarily illumine others ; each in ... Portia's eye is hazel , not dark brown like Juliet's ; her tresses are auburn , not flaxen like Desdemona's . Her marked and ...
... Portia . study , while throwing light on one particular subject , will necessarily illumine others ; each in ... Portia's eye is hazel , not dark brown like Juliet's ; her tresses are auburn , not flaxen like Desdemona's . Her marked and ...
Page 145
... Portia's situation is a more important and independent one than that of Juliet and Desdemona . If the first wins , and the second be- seeches our admiration , Portia commands it ; yet she is so good- natured , sweet - tempered , and ...
... Portia's situation is a more important and independent one than that of Juliet and Desdemona . If the first wins , and the second be- seeches our admiration , Portia commands it ; yet she is so good- natured , sweet - tempered , and ...
Page 146
Portia is supreme ; but to the generality she is not so deliciously lovable as the favourite Juliet , nor so softly , sadly interesting as Des- demona ; yet she is a more majestic creature than either - the stately queen of goddesses ...
Portia is supreme ; but to the generality she is not so deliciously lovable as the favourite Juliet , nor so softly , sadly interesting as Des- demona ; yet she is a more majestic creature than either - the stately queen of goddesses ...
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... Portia's eloquence is not a resistless torrent like that of Juliet , whose ideas and language dazzle us by the brilliancy of metaphor , rather than instruct us by the sobriety of truth : too strong a light sheds a false glare on ...
... Portia's eloquence is not a resistless torrent like that of Juliet , whose ideas and language dazzle us by the brilliancy of metaphor , rather than instruct us by the sobriety of truth : too strong a light sheds a false glare on ...
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Page 245 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 33 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long!
Page 76 - ... 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 80 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 117 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans
Page 352 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Page 77 - But that same gentle Spirit, from whose pen Large streames of honnie and sweete Nectar flowe, Scorning the boldnes of such base-borne men, Which dare their follies forth so rashlie throwe, Doth rather choose to sit in idle Cell, Than so himselfe to mockerie to sell.
Page 122 - Id have you buy and sell so, so give alms, Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 5 - Mother baking bread, with her children round her : — all hidden and protectingly folded up in the valley-folds ; yet there and alive, as sure as if I beheld them. Or to see, as well as fancy, the nine Towns and Villages, that lay round my mountain-seat, which, in still weather, were wont to speak to me (by their steeple-bells) with metal tongue ; and, in almost all weather, proclaimed their vitality by repeated Smoke-clouds ; whereon, as on a culinary horologe, I might read the hour of the day.
Page 125 - How could communities Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive 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...