An Essay on the Play of The Tempest: With Remarks on the Superstitions of the Middle Ages; Some Original Observations on the Character of Caliban; with Various Reflections on the Writings and Genius of Shakspere. Read Before the Shakspere Club, 6th September, 1839J. Fellowes, 1840 - 58 pages |
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... amongst many that could be recorded , while it awakens our sympathy , will ever remain an indelible stain upon the page of history . Even in the plenitude of ancient Rome , the influence of such belief guided the destinies of that great ...
... amongst many that could be recorded , while it awakens our sympathy , will ever remain an indelible stain upon the page of history . Even in the plenitude of ancient Rome , the influence of such belief guided the destinies of that great ...
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... amongst its adherents : - in modern times , those illustrious men , Sir Thomas More , Rousseau , Montesquieu , and Mably , are likewise named among its supporters , and who , in their speculations on governments , affecting human ...
... amongst its adherents : - in modern times , those illustrious men , Sir Thomas More , Rousseau , Montesquieu , and Mably , are likewise named among its supporters , and who , in their speculations on governments , affecting human ...
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... amongst his people , is pounced upon , by his brother Anthonio , aided by Alonzo , King of Naples , and under the most profound confidence , which the generous Prospero reposed in them , he , with his daughter , a child at this period ...
... amongst his people , is pounced upon , by his brother Anthonio , aided by Alonzo , King of Naples , and under the most profound confidence , which the generous Prospero reposed in them , he , with his daughter , a child at this period ...
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... amongst many , of Shakspere's ignorance of geography , when he supposes Tunis and Naples , to have been at such an immeasurable distance from each other . The same imputation has been made by various writers ; it is , however , to be ...
... amongst many , of Shakspere's ignorance of geography , when he supposes Tunis and Naples , to have been at such an immeasurable distance from each other . The same imputation has been made by various writers ; it is , however , to be ...
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... , through translations alone : amongst the number of those , who contend that Shakspere had never perused the Latin authors , and that his knowledge of Roman events was only obtained through books , then 46 ON THE TEMPEST .
... , through translations alone : amongst the number of those , who contend that Shakspere had never perused the Latin authors , and that his knowledge of Roman events was only obtained through books , then 46 ON THE TEMPEST .
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Page 39 - You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air...
Page 23 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 17 - em. Caliban. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.
Page 22 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and...
Page 45 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art/ Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 35 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 1 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 49 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 4 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the souL...
Page 53 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear. The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...