 What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 3481838Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1888 - 442 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending !—as if the living martyrdom that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 284 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...gone through, — the flaying of his feelings alive, — tfid not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him. If he is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show: it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tj&tehjis_pnJ; his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw it about more easily. A happy ending! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gono through, —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 282 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony, — it must have lovescenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending 1 — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 282 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony, — it must have lovescenes-, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too.' _Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1893 - 290 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show: it is too hard and stony; it must have lovescenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending !—as if the living martyrdom that... | |
 | 1893 - 972 pages
...the "improvements" in the tragedy, too, could not but give dire offence. "Tate," Lamb well says, " put his hook in the nostrils of this leviathan for Garrick and his followers, the fuglemen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily." The twofold prejudice thus felt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 220 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show : it is too hard and stony ; it must have love scenes, and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 308 pages
...beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show; it is too hard and stony; it must have love-scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia...to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ending!—as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through,—the flaying of his feelings alive,—d1d... | |
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