| Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg - 1815 - 786 pages
...verschaIfen , ihre weichen HändIII. B. 2i • .. MAN N. Between the acting of a dreadful thing. And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream; The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
| John William Cunningham - English fiction - 1815 - 318 pages
...the unities, is yet a philosopher and a poet. He says, " Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." Gustavus could attest the truth of this, for he was to travel, and he -was in love. " It is hard,'*... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...which he did ascend. Conspiracy dreadful till executed. Between the acting of a dreadful thing. And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 444 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have Rot slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma ', or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...breathless agony, that the pinch of the interest lies. " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. The mortal instruments are then in council ; And the state of man suffers an insurrection." But by... | |
| 1818 - 646 pages
...agony, that the pinch of the interest lies. " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the fiist motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. The mortal instruments are then in council; And the state of man suffers ;m insurrection."' Lectures,... | |
| Assassins - 1819 - 146 pages
...enthusiast prevailed on himself to strike the final blow. Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream . The genius and the mortal instruments Are then In council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...shins of the rustic assembly (for the cockneyt had been " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." distanced by the sixty-six miles); the time drew near, I had got a good stand; a bustle, a buzz, ran... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 346 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream :' i 7 1 According to his nature. JOHNSON. The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council... | |
| Sophocles - 1823 - 228 pages
...conscious of my wrath, * Precisely Shakespeare's idea : — " Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And -the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." JUL. Css. Act 2, sc. 1. r Musgrave, in his notes, proposes the following alterations in these lines... | |
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