ShakspereMacmillan, 1893 - 167 pages |
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... evil , its greatness and grotesqueness , its laughter and its tears . When men cared thus about human life , their imagination craved living pictures and visions of it . They liked to represent to themselves men and women in all ...
... evil , its greatness and grotesqueness , its laughter and its tears . When men cared thus about human life , their imagination craved living pictures and visions of it . They liked to represent to themselves men and women in all ...
Page 53
... evil world is pictured , and out of this emerge the strength and purity of Isabella , one of Shakspere's highest conceptions of female character , but , like Helena , deficient in charm . It is as if Shakspere at this time were writing ...
... evil world is pictured , and out of this emerge the strength and purity of Isabella , one of Shakspere's highest conceptions of female character , but , like Helena , deficient in charm . It is as if Shakspere at this time were writing ...
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... evil . The belief in human virtue , indeed , never deserts him : in Lear there is a Cordelia ; in Macbeth a Banquo ; even Troilus will be the better , not the worse , for his disenchantment with Cressida ; and it is because Timon would ...
... evil . The belief in human virtue , indeed , never deserts him : in Lear there is a Cordelia ; in Macbeth a Banquo ; even Troilus will be the better , not the worse , for his disenchantment with Cressida ; and it is because Timon would ...
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... evil repute for its roguery , licentiousness , and magical practices , a city in which such errors might be sup- posed to be the result of sorcery and witchcraft . ( See Act I. Sc . ii . L. 97-102 . ) To Shakspere belongs wholly the ...
... evil repute for its roguery , licentiousness , and magical practices , a city in which such errors might be sup- posed to be the result of sorcery and witchcraft . ( See Act I. Sc . ii . L. 97-102 . ) To Shakspere belongs wholly the ...
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... evil , but shunning courageous effort also , he becomes the cause or occasion of almost as much evil as if he were actively a criminal . When the revision of the old plays was made we cannot be certain , perhaps a short time before Mar ...
... evil , but shunning courageous effort also , he becomes the cause or occasion of almost as much evil as if he were actively a criminal . When the revision of the old plays was made we cannot be certain , perhaps a short time before Mar ...
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