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... light in which the dramatist requires that we should regard it ) , and , even in part , forgiven . To me Posthumus is detestable , and it requires sophistry of an active order to make him seem sym- pathetic . For stage purposes the part ...
... light in which the dramatist requires that we should regard it ) , and , even in part , forgiven . To me Posthumus is detestable , and it requires sophistry of an active order to make him seem sym- pathetic . For stage purposes the part ...
Page 77
... light of the commendation bestowed on Reddish as the virtuous , exemplary Posthumus , to consider that the actor was declared , by that experienced and judicious observer John Bernard , " the greatest genius for the villains of the ...
... light of the commendation bestowed on Reddish as the virtuous , exemplary Posthumus , to consider that the actor was declared , by that experienced and judicious observer John Bernard , " the greatest genius for the villains of the ...
Page 144
... light should be brilliant ; but those scenes were overloaded with accessories , and , practically , placed in almost the dark . The second of them began with a gross absurdity , -Philario and Posthumus being " discovered , " at play ...
... light should be brilliant ; but those scenes were overloaded with accessories , and , practically , placed in almost the dark . The second of them began with a gross absurdity , -Philario and Posthumus being " discovered , " at play ...
Page 154
... light , self - complacent , ironical villain , apt with cynical sneer , and blandly specious ; with but a faint show of subtlety and with no special attempt at contrasts of characterization . His assumed abstraction , in the Temptation ...
... light , self - complacent , ironical villain , apt with cynical sneer , and blandly specious ; with but a faint show of subtlety and with no special attempt at contrasts of characterization . His assumed abstraction , in the Temptation ...
Page 155
... light that made her look like a corpse . He then had to walk around the bier , and to hover over it , in order to obtain the bracelet and observe the mole . Much of the time his back was turned toward the audience , so that the ...
... light that made her look like a corpse . He then had to walk around the bier , and to hover over it , in order to obtain the bracelet and observe the mole . Much of the time his back was turned toward the audience , so that the ...
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Page 167 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 405 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 41 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 167 - The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free : For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of Nature, shares with man His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal, Stays all the fair young planet in her hands — If she be small, slight-natured, miserable, How shall men grow...
Page 306 - THE Second part of Henrie the fourth, continuing to his death, and coronation of Henrie the fift. With the humours of sir lohn Fal staffe, and swaggering Pistoll. As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by William Shakespeare. LONDON Printed by VS for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley. 1600.
Page 40 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 50 - This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life...
Page 305 - The History of Henrie the Fourth ; with the battell at Shrewsburie, betweene the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the North. With the humorous conceits of Sir lohn Falstaffe. At London. Printed by PS for Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Angell. 1598.
Page 40 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ! Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.1 III.
Page 218 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.