...it prosaical. If Shakspeare deserves our admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word...signification, as including every mental condition, erery tone from indifference or familiar mirth to the wildest rage and despair. He gives us the history...

...reputation:—"If Shakspeare deserves our admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word...single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." This last is a profound and exquisite remark; and it necessarily implies that Shakspeare contemplated...

...reputation:—" If Shakspeare deserves our admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word...rage and despair. He gives us the history of minds: fie lays open to us, in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." This last is a profound...

...reputation : — "If Shakspeare deserves our admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word...mental condition, every tone from indifference or fainifiar mirth, to the wildest rage and despair. He gives us the history of minds : he lays open to...

...speech, in which other dramatists would have clothed it. "He gives us," to use the language of Schlegel, "the history of minds; he lays open to us, in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." Nor is this "contemplation of ideas" the only circumstance which gives such striking nature to his...

...to the most tempestuous passions that agitate the breast of man. As AW Schlegel justly observes, ' He lays open to us in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions.' In that part of the work which respects Nature, I have exhibited to the reader those exquisitely beautiful...

...to the most tempestuous passions that agitate the breast of man. As AW Schlegel justly observes, " He lays open to us in a single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." In that part of the work which respects Nature, I have exhibited to the reader those exquisitely beautiful...

...it prosaical. If Shakspeare deserves our admiration for his characters, he is equally deserving of it for his exhibition of passion, taking this word in its widest signification, as includingevery mental condition, every tone, from indifference or familiar mirth to the wildest rage...

...characters, he is the S co^° me 1 ua % deserving of it for his exhibition of Passion, taking temptation this word in its widest signification as including...single word, a whole series of preceding conditions." This last is a profound and exquisite remark : and it necessarily implies, that Shakspeare contemplated...

...emotions to the most tempestuous passions that agitate the breast of man. As Schlegel justly observes, " he lays open to us in a single word a whole series of preceding conditions." 30 In that part of the work which respects Nature, I have exhibited to the reader those exquisitely...