 | 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 - 606 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimensions, but in intellectual ; the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano — they are storms turning...to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast richesj It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up...all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid hare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on ; even as he himself neglects... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to (he bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they arc storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, withall its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This rase of flesh and blood seems too... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual; the explosions of his passions are terrible as a volcano: they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that rich sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...passions are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that rich sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his...even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see 110thing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence or rage ; while we read it, we see not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...passions are terrible as a volcano : they are slorms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that rich sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his...mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood ceem* too insignificant to be thought on ; even as be himself neglects it. On the stage we see no thing... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up...that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is bis mind which is laid bare. This care of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up...vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This care of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on ; even as he himself neglects it.... | |
 | 1822 - 628 pages
...aching. " The explosions of his passion," as Mr. Lamb has written in an excellent criticism, " are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning up...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches." Such a scene wanted relief, and Shakespear, we may rely upon it, gives us the best. But it is acted... | |
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The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual; the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. 
