 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...  The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts - Sida 22efter Charles Lamb - 1818Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even /ago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them toi overleap those moral fences. Barnvvell is a wretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between... | |
 | 1815 - 558 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there ii a certain fitness between his neck and the rope ; he is the legitimate heir to the gallows ; nobody... | |
 | 1815 - 628 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer; there is a cerlnin fitness between his neck and the rope; he is the legitimate heir to the gallows ; nobody who... | |
 | 1815 - 554 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not 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... | |
 | 1821 - 410 sidor
...that while wo are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • • * • " So to see Lear acted, — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 sidor
...— we think not so much of the crimes which they,commit, as of the ambition, • Published in 1818. the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * * * " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,... | |
 | 1824 - 340 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his greatest criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." • * * # " So to see Lear acted — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,... | |
 | 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 - 608 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters — Macbeth, Richard, even lago — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell is a \vretched murderer ; there is a certain fitness between his neck and the rope — he is the legitimate... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters., — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...prompts them to overleap those moral fences. Barnwell isawretched murderer; there is a certain fitness between his neck and the rope ; he is the legitimate... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 sidor
...that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago,— we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences. Barnwell is a wretched murderer ; there is a certain fitness between his neck and... | |
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