...ordinary poets. As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world. She has lived among horrors till she is become " native...She speaks the dialect of despair, her tongue has a snatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. — What are " Luke's iron crown," the brazen bull of Perillus,...

...ordinary poets. As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world. She has lived among horrors till she is become " native...She speaks the dialect of despair, her tongue has a snatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. — What are " Luke's iron crown," the brazen bull of Perillus,...

...sake of those which are more easy." Let any one try which is the STUDIES OP BHAKSPEHE. more easy, " to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as...to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop," as Charles Lamb deseribes the tragic art of Webster ; or to make a Desdemona, amidst the indignities...

...any one try which is the STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE. more easy, " to touch a soul to the quick, to lay npon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop," as Charles Lamb describes the tragic art of Webster ; or to make a Desdemona, amidst the indignities...

...ordinary poets. As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world. She has lived among horrors till she is become " native...She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a sinatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick,...

...They are full of " deep groans and terrible ghastly looks." " To move a horror skilfully," says Lamb, "to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to ivean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its...

...the tragedy of passion. Lamb has beautifully described Webster, as almost alone having the power " to move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it ig ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit." Lamb adds, "writers...

...masque of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bellman, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can boar, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to...

...none of our dramatists have exhibited so effectively. ' To move a terror skilfully,' observes Lamb, ' to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wear and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its...

...ordinary poets. As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world. She has lived among horrors till she is become " native and endowed imto that element." She speaks the dialect of despair, her tongue has a snatch of Tartarus and the...