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" The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not... "
The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts - Page 22
by Charles Lamb - 1818
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The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy ..., Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even /ago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them toi overleap those moral fences. Barnvvell is a wretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 5

1815 - 558 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there ii a certain fitness between his neck and the rope ; he is the legitimate heir to the gallows ; nobody...
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Analectic Magazine: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 5

1815 - 628 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer; there is a cerlnin fitness between his neck and the rope; he is the legitimate heir to the gallows ; nobody who...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 5

1815 - 554 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the amhition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap thosft Dioral...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

1821 - 410 pages
...that while wo are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • • * • " So to see Lear acted, — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...— we think not so much of the crimes which they,commit, as of the ambition, • Published in 1818. the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * * * " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,...
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The Etonian, Volume 2

1824 - 340 pages
...that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * * # " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 53-54

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 608 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a \vretched murderer ; there is a certain fitness between his neck and the rope — he is the legitimate...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters., — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell isawretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between his neck and the rope ; he is the legitimate...
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Rosamund Gray: Recollections of Christ's Hospital, Etc. Etc

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 pages
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago,— we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there is a certain fitness between his neck and...
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