 A lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required...  Goethe's Literary Essays - Trang 153bởi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1921 - 302 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 trang
...All duties are holy for him ; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He...thoughts; yet still without recovering his peace of mind." CHAPTER XIV. t SEVERAL people entering interrupted the discussion. They were musical dilettanti, who... | |
 | 1835 - 1022 trang
...have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He turns, and winds, and torments himself: he advances and recoils, is...: yet still without recovering his peace of mind." This is finely thought and imagined, but it gives too favourable an impression of Hamlet's character,... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 trang
...duties are holy for him ; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'* P. 51,1.3. One like a meteor—Nations gazed, admired. Byron. P. 53, 1. 4. Each gentle verse that Pope... | |
 | 1842 - 610 trang
...Impossibilities are required of him, not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is...; yet still without recovering his peace of mind." There is a yielding to misfortune, a feebleness, which equally seems to mark the characters of Lear,... | |
 | Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 452 trang
...Impossibilities are required of him, not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds and torments himself; he advances and recoils; is...thoughts; yet still without recovering his peace of mind." ' There is a yielding to misfortune, a feebleness, which equally seems to mark the characters of Lear,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 788 trang
...duties are holy for him ; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'" There is nothing so good as this in any of our own commentators — nothing at once so poetical, so... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 trang
...All duties are holy for him ; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He...yet still without recovering his peace of mind.'" The players, with our hero at their head, now travel across the country, rehearsing, lecturing, squabbling,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 trang
...duties are holy for him ; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He...purpose from his thoughts; yet still without recovering bis peace of mind. There is nothing so good as this in any of our own commentators — nothing at once... | |
 | Thomas Grinfield - 1850 - 66 trang
...: the present is too hard. He winds, and turns, and torments himself: he advances and recoils : he is ever put in mind, ever puts himself in mind : at...does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts, yet without recovering his peace of mind." Coleridge has these fine remarks :—" One of Shakspeare's modes... | |
 | 1852 - 782 trang
...duties ore holy for him ; the present is too hará. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He....torments himself; he advances and recoils; is ever put in mindt ever puts himself in mind; at last does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts; yet still... | |
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