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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... human brain , and in a moral and poetical point of view , presents to us , scenes and events truly pleasing and instructive ; but amidst all this grandeur and beauty , the calm spirit of philosophy , will ever have something to deplore ...
... human brain , and in a moral and poetical point of view , presents to us , scenes and events truly pleasing and instructive ; but amidst all this grandeur and beauty , the calm spirit of philosophy , will ever have something to deplore ...
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... human mind , connected with superstition , the detail of which , will always present a durable monument of human folly ; -science has done much , in our day , to give to the aspect of human affairs , a very different character ; but ...
... human mind , connected with superstition , the detail of which , will always present a durable monument of human folly ; -science has done much , in our day , to give to the aspect of human affairs , a very different character ; but ...
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... human mind . Men prompted to intellectual exertion , by the revival of letters , and agitated by the religious revolutions of the times- the splendour of the poet , with the deep thought of the philosopher , were excited into action ...
... human mind . Men prompted to intellectual exertion , by the revival of letters , and agitated by the religious revolutions of the times- the splendour of the poet , with the deep thought of the philosopher , were excited into action ...
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... human heart ; lovely and gentle in her nature , Miranda is one of those beings of woman- kind , that the graphic powers of Shakspere , have been so successful in delineating ; he has through- out the play , drawn the daughter of ...
... human heart ; lovely and gentle in her nature , Miranda is one of those beings of woman- kind , that the graphic powers of Shakspere , have been so successful in delineating ; he has through- out the play , drawn the daughter of ...
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... human life . Prospero , moved , in no ordinary degree , by the virtue of Miranda , tells her to be of good comfort , The direful spectacle of the wreck , which touch'd The very virtue of compassion in thee ; I have , with such provision ...
... human life . Prospero , moved , in no ordinary degree , by the virtue of Miranda , tells her to be of good comfort , The direful spectacle of the wreck , which touch'd The very virtue of compassion in thee ; I have , with such provision ...
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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...