Shakespear deserves our admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as including every mental condition, every tone from indifference or familiar mirth to the... A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature - Page 284by August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1833 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Walsh - 1817 - 504 pages
...of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as including every mental condition, erery tone from indifference or familiar mirth to the wildest rage and despair. He gives us the history of nunds; he lays open to us, in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions. His passions 'jo... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 pages
...admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as including every...single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." This last is a profound and exquisite remark; and it necessarily implies that Shakspeare contemplated... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as including every...rage and despair. He gives us the history of minds: fie lays open to us, in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." This last is a profound... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 pages
...admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as including every...mental condition, every tone from indifference or fainifiar mirth, to the wildest rage and despair. He gives us the history of minds : he lays open to... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as including every...do not at first stand displayed to us in all their bright, as is the case with so many tragic poets, who, in the language of Lessing, are thorough masters... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1829 - 554 pages
...speech, in which other dramatists would have clothed it. "He gives us," to use the language of Schlegel, "the history of minds; he lays open to us, in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." Nor is this "contemplation of ideas" the only circumstance which gives such striking nature to his... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...to the most tempestuous passions that agitate the breast of man. As AW Schlegel justly observes, ' He lays open to us in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions.' In that part of the work which respects Nature, I have exhibited to the reader those exquisitely beautiful... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...to the most tempestuous passions that agitate the breast of man. As AW Schlegel justly observes, " He lays open to us in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." In that part of the work which respects Nature, I have exhibited to the reader those exquisitely beautiful... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1849 - 112 pages
...characters, he is the S co^° me 1 ua % deserving of it for his exhibition of Passion, taking temptation this word in its widest signification as including every...single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." This last is a profound and exquisite remark : and it necessarily implies, that Shakspeare contemplated... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...emotions to the most tempestuous passions that agitate the breast of man. As Schlegel justly observes, " he lays open to us in a single word a whole series of preceding conditions." 30 In that part of the work which respects Nature, I have exhibited to the reader those exquisitely... | |
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