 The names and some of the properties which the other author has given to his hags excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot coexist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the witches of Middleton are fine creations. Their...  The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 1151808Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 710 pages
...567 and 568; in partnership see note on page 114.] has given to his Hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. A TRAGI-COMEDY [PUBLISHED 1658 : FIRST PERFORMED PROBABLY ABOUT 1622].... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 686 pages
...567 and 568 ; in partnership see note on page 114.] has given to his Hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. A TRAGI-COMEDY [PUBLISHED 1658 : FIRST PERFORMED PROBABLY ABOUT 1622].... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 pages
...properties, which the other author has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious 20 things. Their presence cannot co-exist with mirth....raise jars, jealousies, strifes, "like a thick scurf" over life. WILLIAM ROWLEY —THOMAS DEKKER — JOHN FORD, &c. The Witch of Edmonton. — Mother Sawyer,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 718 pages
...of the properties, which Middleton 1 Light-hearted. has given to his Hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, likt a thick scurf o'er lift. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. A TRAGI-COMEDY [PUBLISHED 1658 : FIRST PERFORMED... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1922 - 498 pages
...The names, and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life ' (pp. 23-24). Schalles' incidental and final allusion to the indebtedness of Heine to Hazlitt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 152 pages
...Their names and some of the properties, which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...a lesser degree, the Witches of Middleton are fine creatures. Their power, too, is in some measure over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes,... | |
 | Henry Kelsey White - 1907 - 104 pages
...and some of the properties, which the other author has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, ' like a thick scurf ' over life." In these last few words, quoted by Lamb from Middleton's play, we have a sufficiently... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 pages
...The names, and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." IAGO The character of lago is one of the supererogations of Shakspeare's genius. Some persons,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 272 pages
...The names, and some of the properties which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life." I AGO The character of lago is one of the supererogations of Shakspeare's genius. Some... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1915 - 594 pages
...names, and some of the properties, which Middleton has given to his hags, excite smiles. The Weird Sisters are serious things. Their presence cannot...raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o' er life.' COLLIER (ed. i, 1843) says in reference to Malone's conviction that The Witch was a play... | |
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