The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play ; with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsWalker, 1810 - 353 pages |
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Page vi
... minds which are incapable of elevating their ideas to the sublimity of their author's , are willing to bring them down to a level with their own . Hence many fine passages have been condemned in Shakspeare , as rant , and fustian ...
... minds which are incapable of elevating their ideas to the sublimity of their author's , are willing to bring them down to a level with their own . Hence many fine passages have been condemned in Shakspeare , as rant , and fustian ...
Page viii
... minds , when read or recited . • 6 If , ' says he , a person ' finds , that a performance transports not his soul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words ...
... minds , when read or recited . • 6 If , ' says he , a person ' finds , that a performance transports not his soul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than the mere sounds of the words ...
Page ix
... mind as can- not easily be worn out or effaced : in a word , you may pronounce that sublime , beautiful , and genuine , which always pleases and takes equally with all sorts of men . For when persons of different humours , ages ...
... mind as can- not easily be worn out or effaced : in a word , you may pronounce that sublime , beautiful , and genuine , which always pleases and takes equally with all sorts of men . For when persons of different humours , ages ...
Page 29
... minds are dedicate To nothing temporal . THE POWER OF VIRTUOUS BEAUTY . Is this her fault , or mine ? The tempter , or the tempted , who sins most ? Ha ! Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I , That lying by the violet , in the sun ...
... minds are dedicate To nothing temporal . THE POWER OF VIRTUOUS BEAUTY . Is this her fault , or mine ? The tempter , or the tempted , who sins most ? Ha ! Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I , That lying by the violet , in the sun ...
Page 30
... stamps that are forbid : ' tis all as easy Falsely to take away a life true made , As to put mettle in restrained means , To make a false one . * Profit . + Outside . • el . LOWLINESS OF MIND . Let me be 30 THE BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE .
... stamps that are forbid : ' tis all as easy Falsely to take away a life true made , As to put mettle in restrained means , To make a false one . * Profit . + Outside . • el . LOWLINESS OF MIND . Let me be 30 THE BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE .
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