Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 38
... Duchess . Under their pressure , he proceeds , like Flamineo , from crime to crime . First he spies on the Duchess , who trusts him ; then he betrays her secret ; then when the brothers begin to wreak vengeance on her , he becomes first ...
... Duchess . Under their pressure , he proceeds , like Flamineo , from crime to crime . First he spies on the Duchess , who trusts him ; then he betrays her secret ; then when the brothers begin to wreak vengeance on her , he becomes first ...
Page 41
... Duchess , made hideous by the clamour of lunatics and the ghastly images of murdered children , exhibit to us , in visible form , the hell on earth , which it is their nature to create . Even Webster's irrelevant scenes of pageantry ...
... Duchess , made hideous by the clamour of lunatics and the ghastly images of murdered children , exhibit to us , in visible form , the hell on earth , which it is their nature to create . Even Webster's irrelevant scenes of pageantry ...
Page 42
... duchess and my husband : one of them A pick - axe bore , the other a rusty spade ; And in rough terms they gan to challenge me About this yew . BRACHIANO . That tree ? VITTORIA . This harmless yew : They told me my intent was to root up ...
... duchess and my husband : one of them A pick - axe bore , the other a rusty spade ; And in rough terms they gan to challenge me About this yew . BRACHIANO . That tree ? VITTORIA . This harmless yew : They told me my intent was to root up ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic convention critic Dalloway death describes Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney fastidious feeling Flamineo give Gray Gray's hand heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen lady live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer