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... truth that real thinking implies the action of the whole nature , and not of a single isolated faculty . They were men of large understandings ; but their understandings rarely acted apart from observation and imagination , from ...
... truth that real thinking implies the action of the whole nature , and not of a single isolated faculty . They were men of large understandings ; but their understandings rarely acted apart from observation and imagination , from ...
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... bit of wisdom which they present as the grand total of the play , and which is often too obvious in itself to make a resort to Shakespeare necessary for a perception of its truth . Their " ground ideas " of the SHAKESPEARE . 45.
... bit of wisdom which they present as the grand total of the play , and which is often too obvious in itself to make a resort to Shakespeare necessary for a perception of its truth . Their " ground ideas " of the SHAKESPEARE . 45.
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Edwin Percy Whipple. its truth . Their " ground ideas " of the dramas are not worth any minor Shakespearian ideas they are assumed to include . -- Indeed , before we claim to understand a Shake- spearian whole , we must first see if we ...
Edwin Percy Whipple. its truth . Their " ground ideas " of the dramas are not worth any minor Shakespearian ideas they are assumed to include . -- Indeed , before we claim to understand a Shake- spearian whole , we must first see if we ...
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... truth he is , relatively , more intellectual in his early than in his later plays , for in his later plays his intellect is thoroughly impassioned , and though it has really grown in strength and massiveness , it is so fused with ...
... truth he is , relatively , more intellectual in his early than in his later plays , for in his later plays his intellect is thoroughly impassioned , and though it has really grown in strength and massiveness , it is so fused with ...
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... truth , his mind was restricted , in its creative ac- tion , like other minds , within the limits of its personal sympathies , though these sympathies in him were keener , quicker , and more general than in other men of genius . He was ...
... truth , his mind was restricted , in its creative ac- tion , like other minds , within the limits of its personal sympathies , though these sympathies in him were keener , quicker , and more general than in other men of genius . He was ...
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Page 98 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 73 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 58 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 99 - Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space, to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 275 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
Page 143 - I'd not be tedious to you. Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me. Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces ; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. Come, violent death, Serve for Mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers ; when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet. [They strangle her, kneeling.
Page 303 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Page 346 - To whom the good man replied, " My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me ; but labor — as indeed I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Page 172 - Nothing can cover his high fame, but Heaven ; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness ; To which I leave him.
Page 305 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.