Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 7Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 224
... never been abused , and impulse never un- controlled by reason , into a high - sighted tyranny under which no man's life is safe . From this pinnacle of patriotic fervour Brutus never afterwards descends . It is all hallucination , of ...
... never been abused , and impulse never un- controlled by reason , into a high - sighted tyranny under which no man's life is safe . From this pinnacle of patriotic fervour Brutus never afterwards descends . It is all hallucination , of ...
Page 417
... never lodges in our minds as a whole , is never compact as ( for instance ) As You Like It , or Much Ado , or Twelfth Night , or Measure for Mea- sure , or as Macbeth , or Othello , or even Antony and Cleopatra is compact , or as The ...
... never lodges in our minds as a whole , is never compact as ( for instance ) As You Like It , or Much Ado , or Twelfth Night , or Measure for Mea- sure , or as Macbeth , or Othello , or even Antony and Cleopatra is compact , or as The ...
Page 425
... never an absolute conviction of reality in any simple sense , for the continual alternation is too rapid , and the air of equivocation induced by the ironic modes and the sense of double time is too persistent for any plain condemnation ...
... never an absolute conviction of reality in any simple sense , for the continual alternation is too rapid , and the air of equivocation induced by the ironic modes and the sense of double time is too persistent for any plain condemnation ...
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