 | Robert Bell - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...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 hear, to wear and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...not "for the sake of those which are more easy." Let any one try which is the more easy, " to touf ha soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...sake of those which are more easy." Let any one try which is the STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE. 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 describes the tragic art of Webster ; or to make a Desdemona, amidst the indignities... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...Charles Lamb says, the duchess 'has lived among horrors till she has become "native and endowed into that element." She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a snatch of Tartarus and the souls of hell. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...bellman, tho living person's dirge, fortification by degrees ! To move a, horror skilfully, to ~i * lonl to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then ю *ith mortal instruments to take its... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 732
...ordinary poets. As they are not like inaictions of this life, so her language seems not of this •world. She has lived among horrors till she is become " native...skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear us much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...The Duchess of. A tragedy by JOHN WEBSTER, first printed in 1623, of which Charles Lamb says: — " To move a horror skilfully, 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... | |
 | Popular educator - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 918
...of tnadmen, 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 tear, to wean and weary a life till it ia ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...— in the heart of man ; in the acts and sufferings of the greatest minds." Of Webster he says : " To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life until it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this... | |
 | John Webster, Cyril Tourneur - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...brothers, when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet. [The Executioners strangle the DUCHESS.* 1 " She has lived among horrors till she is become ' native...tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. What are ' Luke's iron crown,''the brazen bull of Perillus, Procrustes' bed, to the waxen images which... | |
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She has lived among horrors till she is become "native and endowed unto that element. 
