The Round Table: Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 - 366 pages |
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Page 151
... poetry is not the spirit of mortification or of martyrdom . Poetry dwells in a perpetual Utopia of its own , and is for that reason very ill calculated to make a Paradise upon earth , by encountering the shocks and disappointments of ...
... poetry is not the spirit of mortification or of martyrdom . Poetry dwells in a perpetual Utopia of its own , and is for that reason very ill calculated to make a Paradise upon earth , by encountering the shocks and disappointments of ...
Page 174
... poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls within the limits and rules of prose , but not as it is poetry . Least of all was he qualified to be a judge of Shakespear , who alone is high ...
... poet nor a judge of poetry . He might in one sense be a judge of poetry as it falls within the limits and rules of prose , but not as it is poetry . Least of all was he qualified to be a judge of Shakespear , who alone is high ...
Page 214
... poetry : it admits of rhetoric , which goes into argument and explanation , but it presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind , no jutting frieze , buttress , or coigne of vantage ' for poetry to make its pendant bed and ...
... poetry : it admits of rhetoric , which goes into argument and explanation , but it presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind , no jutting frieze , buttress , or coigne of vantage ' for poetry to make its pendant bed and ...
Contents
On the Love of Life | 1 |
On Modern Comedy | 7 |
On Mr Keans Iago | 14 |
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actor admiration affections Apemantus appear beauty Beggar's Opera Boccacio Cæsar Caliban character circumstances comedy common contempt Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE death delight Desdemona doth dramatic equal excited eyes Falstaff fame fancy favour fear feeling folly fool friends genius give Gonerill good-natured grace hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago idea imagination indifference interest Julius Cæsar king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner Marriage a-la-Mode MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind mistress moral nature never noble objects opinion Othello painted painter passages passion persons picture play pleasure poet poetry Prince principle reason refinement Regan Rembrandt Richard Richard II ROMEO AND JULIET scene seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew soul speak spirit stage sweet sympathy taste Tatler tenderness thee things thou art thought Titian Titus Andronicus tragedy true truth whole words writer youth