... nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities,... The Monthly Review - Page 1011842Full view - About this book
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pages
...have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils; is...thoughts; yet still without recovering his peace of mind." CHAPTER XIV. t SEVERAL people entering interrupted the discussion. They were musical dilettanti, who... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1835 - 724 pages
...other characters. In his fine critique upon this play, he remarks, " To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...to mark the characters of Lear, Romeo, Othello and Macheth. The character in Shakspeare, which appears in some points to approach nearest to the subjects... | |
| England - 1835 - 1022 pages
...Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He turns, and winds, and torments himself: he advances and recoils,...: yet still without recovering his peace of mind." This is finely thought and imagined, but it gives too favourable an impression of Hamlet's character,... | |
| Chandos Leigh - English poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds and turns and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'* P. 51,1.3. One like a meteor—Nations gazed, admired. Byron. P. 53, 1. 4. Each gentle verse that Pope... | |
| Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - American essays - 1844 - 456 pages
...other characters. In his fine critique upon this play he remarks, " To me it is clear that Shakspeare meant, in the present case, to represent the effects...Lear, Romeo, Othello, and Macbeth. The character in Shakspeare, which appears in some points to approach nearest to the subjects of ancient drama, is Lady... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 788 pages
...have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...still without recovering his peace of mind.'" There is nothing so good as this in any of our own commentators — nothing at once so poetical, so feeling,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'" The players, with our hero at their head, now travel across the country, rehearsing, lecturing, squabbling,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils; is...purpose from his thoughts; yet still without recovering bis peace of mind. There is nothing so good as this in any of our own commentators — nothing at once... | |
| Thomas Grinfield - 1850 - 66 pages
...: the present is too hard. He winds, and turns, and torments himself: he advances and recoils : he is ever put in mind, ever puts himself in mind : at...does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts, yet without recovering his peace of mind." Coleridge has these fine remarks :—" One of Shakspeare's modes... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and .torments himself; he ad rant« and recoils ; is ever put in mind, ever puts himself...from his thoughts; yet still without recovering his peac* of mind. " There is nothing so good as this in any of our own commentators—nothing at once... | |
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