 | 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 - 606 pages
...criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which tliey commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there is a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer; there is a cerlnin fitness between his neck and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even logo, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
 | 1821 - 420 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 those moral fences." • * ' * » " So to see Lear acted,— to see an old man tottering about the... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...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,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." * * » * " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...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 those moral fences. Barnwell isawretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
 | 1835 - 610 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 those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there is a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
 | Stephen Collins - Essays - 1842 - 318 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,...which prompts them to overleap these moral fences. So little, comparatively, do the actions of such characters in Shakspeare affect us, that while the... | |
| |
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 so... 
