 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.  The Works of Charles Lamb - Page 95by Charles Lamb - 1881Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 436 pages
...inadequate to represent the horrors of the real/elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear. The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual. The explosion of his passions are" terrible as a volcano, — they are storms, turning- up and disclosing... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...represent Lear : they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one ef Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness of...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.... | |
 | 1824 - 340 pages
...be to represent Lear : they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a 'tage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness...dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of Ms passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 pages
...monarch, that "they (the actors) might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness...sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his In the next scene, the old king appears in a very distressful situation. He informs Regan, whom he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear. The 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... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...given it afterward. ' The greatness of Lear,' says CHARLES LAMR, ' is not in corporeal dimensions, but in intellectual. The explosions of his passion...its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. The case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on; even as he himself neglects it.'... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...imagination to aching. " The explosions of his passion," as Lamb has written in an excellent criticism, " are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning...bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches." Such a scene wanted relief, and Shakespeare, we may rely upon it, gives us the best. But it is acted... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 420 pages
...be to represent Lear. They might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness of Lear is not in corporeal dimensions, but in intellectual. The explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...be to represent Lear : they might more easily propose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo's terrible figures. The greatness of Lear is not in corporeal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...inadequate to represent the horrors of the real elements, than any actor can be to represent Lear. The 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... | |
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