 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...  Miscellanies - Page 47by Stephen Collins - 1842 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pages
...concomitant with Shakspeare ? — A kindred mind ! * * * 'The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pages
...profound, the witty, accomplished Richard? The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare arc so much th* Objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity...great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even /ago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit,... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...— the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there ii a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the ol)jects of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity,...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
...— the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest...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
...— the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard ? The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather, than of interest...great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even logo, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit,... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the object* of meditation, rather than of interest or curiosity...intellectual activity,. which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * ' * » " So to see Lear acted,— to see an old man tottering about the... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...with the commonest productions of modern talent. " 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 wo are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...with the commonest productions of modern talent. " The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation, rather than of interest...their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters— Macbeth, Richard, evea lago — we think not so much of the crimes... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 340 pages
...rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." * * » * " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage... | |
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