Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... play of Hamlet is founded on these two char- acteristics , and they are apparent throughout ; as we shall endeavor to show by a separate analysis of it . We are continually hearing the poet himself speak- ing out through the words of ...
... play of Hamlet is founded on these two char- acteristics , and they are apparent throughout ; as we shall endeavor to show by a separate analysis of it . We are continually hearing the poet himself speak- ing out through the words of ...
Page 50
... plays , and forming , as I have before said , the ground - plan of Hamlet . I cannot help quoting in this connection a passage from " As You Like It , " which only Shakspeare could have written . The words are so simple that a fool ...
... plays , and forming , as I have before said , the ground - plan of Hamlet . I cannot help quoting in this connection a passage from " As You Like It , " which only Shakspeare could have written . The words are so simple that a fool ...
Page 65
... the invol- untary movements of our bodies are to us , the action of his mind was to him ; and as it darted " from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , " the wide world seemed but the green play - ground of his 5 SHAKSPEARE . 65.
... the invol- untary movements of our bodies are to us , the action of his mind was to him ; and as it darted " from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , " the wide world seemed but the green play - ground of his 5 SHAKSPEARE . 65.
Page 66
... Play with your fancies ; and in them behold , Upon the hempen tackle , ship - boys climbing : Hear the shrill whistle , which doth order give To sounds confused : behold the threaden sails , Borne with the invisible and creeping wind ...
... Play with your fancies ; and in them behold , Upon the hempen tackle , ship - boys climbing : Hear the shrill whistle , which doth order give To sounds confused : behold the threaden sails , Borne with the invisible and creeping wind ...
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... only that the mind he sent labored not in vain . Action , in which God's will is not the motive , is sending the lightning flashes of heaven to play for men's amusement among the far - off clouds ; and 80 SHAKSPEARE .
... only that the mind he sent labored not in vain . Action , in which God's will is not the motive , is sending the lightning flashes of heaven to play for men's amusement among the far - off clouds ; and 80 SHAKSPEARE .
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...