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JOHNSON. 'Yes, as "a poor player, who frets and struts his hour upon the stage;" as a shadow. BOSWELL. 'But has he not brought Shakspeare into notice? JOHNSON. 'Sir, to allow that, would be to lampoon the age. Many of Shakspeare's plays are the worse for being acted: Macbeth, for instance. BOSWELL. 'What, Sir, is nothing gained by decoration and action?
Shakspeare's choice fell first on this period of English history, so full of misery and horrors of every kind, because the pathetic is naturally more suitable than the characteristic to a young poet's mind. We do not yet find here the whole maturity of his genius, yet certainly its whole strength.
HE Shakspeare's, Milton's, Keats's, Scott's native bard! Well, woe be to the man who denies the public gods! The truth is, then, that Athens is a disappointment; and I am angry that it should be so.
It is only, as you observe, when, like Shakspeare's lover, he has given up making love as a bad job, and has received that severe hit on the ganglions which the cruelty of a mistress inflicts, that he neglects his personal appearance: he neglects it, not because he is in love, but because his nervous system is depressed. That was the cause, if you remember, with poor Major Prim.
The two upper shelves are occupied by miscellaneous books, such as Cooper's novels, Shakspeare's works, and the like. On the next two shelves stand Frank's choicest books natural histories; there are sixteen large volumes, and he knows them almost by heart.
He had not to do with a hair-splitting, hypercritical age like ours, which is always seeking in poetry for something else than poetry; his audience entered the theatre, not to learn true chronology, geography, and natural history, but to witness a vivid exhibition. I will undertake to prove that Shakspeare's anachronisms are, for the most part, committed of set purpose and deliberately.
Unfortunately, there is no edition of the "Divina Commedia" which can claim any special authority, none which has even in a small degree such authority as belongs to the first folio of Shakspeare's plays.
Some of Shakspeare's finest passages explode all grammar and rhetoric like skyrockets the thought blows the language to shivers. As to Murillo, there are two splendid specimens of his style here, as exquisite as any I have seen; but I do not find reason to alter the judgment I made from my first survey.
It was the daughter of the Good Earl who married Richard Nevil, created, on succeeding to the Warwick estates through his wife, Earl of Warwick, known as "the king maker;" a grand character in Shakspeare's Henry VI., and the hero of Sir Bulwer Lytton's "Last of the Barons." Then there is Leicester Hospital, founded in the time of Richard II., as two guilds, in honour of the Virgin and St.
The character of the troubles that existed between Henry IV. and his eldest son and successor, Shakspeare's Prince Hal, is involved in much obscurity. It used to be taken for granted that the poet's Prince was an historical character, but that is no longer the case, Falstaff's royal associate being now regarded in the same light in which Falstaff himself is regarded.
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