A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... speak , but for the reader to judge . This much , however , I will say , that I have always endeavoured to discover the true meaning of the author , and that I believe I have seldom mistaken it . Those who are best acquainted with the ...
... speak , but for the reader to judge . This much , however , I will say , that I have always endeavoured to discover the true meaning of the author , and that I believe I have seldom mistaken it . Those who are best acquainted with the ...
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... speak- ing of the predominant tendency of his endeavours . Religion is the root of human existence . Were it possible for man to renounce all religion , including that which is un- conscious , independent of the will , he would become a ...
... speak- ing of the predominant tendency of his endeavours . Religion is the root of human existence . Were it possible for man to renounce all religion , including that which is un- conscious , independent of the will , he would become a ...
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... speaking , can neither be called tragedy nor comedy in the sense of the ancients , is indigenous only to England and Spain . In both it began to flourish at the same time , somewhat more than two hundred years ago , being brought to ...
... speaking , can neither be called tragedy nor comedy in the sense of the ancients , is indigenous only to England and Spain . In both it began to flourish at the same time , somewhat more than two hundred years ago , being brought to ...
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... speak only of the generals , and those who may have performed actions of distinction . In like manner the battles of the human mind , if I may use the expression , have been won by a few intellectual heroes . The history of the ...
... speak only of the generals , and those who may have performed actions of distinction . In like manner the battles of the human mind , if I may use the expression , have been won by a few intellectual heroes . The history of the ...
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... speak in his own person . This is , however , merely the first external foundation of the form ; and that is dialogue . But the characters may express thoughts and sentiments without operating any change on each other , and so leave the ...
... speak in his own person . This is , however , merely the first external foundation of the form ; and that is dialogue . But the characters may express thoughts and sentiments without operating any change on each other , and so leave the ...
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Page 350 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 251 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 398 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 372 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.