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" Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature... "
Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes - Page 158
by Sophocles - 1833
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1833 - 476 pages
...painted, and what he has described in the following lines: Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...presumes that he would not put his purpose in execution. t " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream ; The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni - 1834 - 482 pages
...was dark night when they arrived at the cottage of Lucy. " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." Lucy endured many hours the anguish of such a dream; and Agnes, even Agnes, the author of the plot,...
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The Elements of Moral Science

Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 494 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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The Elements of Moral Science

Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 486 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Cxsar I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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Essays : on self-love

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...swallowed up in the immediate interest of the scene — but " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." I found it so as I felt the sun's rays clinging to my back, and saw the white wintry clouds sink below...
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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius,1 and the mortal instruments,2 Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...swallowed up in the immediate interest of the scene — but " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." I found it so as I felt the sun's rays clinging to my back, and saw the white wintry clouds sink below...
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Cresar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, 1 The old copy erroneously reads, " the first of March."...
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Literary remains of the late William Hazlitt. With a notice of his life, by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...swallowed up in the immediate interest of the scene — but " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream." I found it so as I felt the sun's rays clinging to my back, and saw the white wintry clouds sink below...
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