 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 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." FALSTATF If Shakespeare's fondness for the ludicrous sometimes led to faults in his tragedies... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1922 - 484 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 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. WILLIAM ROWLEY, — THOMAS DECKER, — JOHN FORD, ETC. The Witch of Edmonton. Mother Sawyer,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1927 - 242 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 coexist with mirth. But, in a lesser degree, the 176 Witches of Middleton are fine creations. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, ' like a thick scurf... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 220 pages
...presence cannot co-exist with mirth. But in a lesser degree, the Witches of Middleton are fine creatures. Their power, too, is in some measure over the mind....raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life" (Specimens of English Dramatic Poets). Among the passages in Macbeth, that have been doubted... | |
 | Thomas Middleton - 1890 - 512 pages
...smiles. The Weird Sisters arc serious things. Their presence cannot coexist with mirth. But, in a If s=er degree, the witches of Middleton are fine creations....over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, lit* a tlii(k scurf o'er life — CliarUs Icml'. A creature that robs wedlock of all comfort, Where'er... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 514 pages
...names, and some of the properties, which Middieton 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 crea tions. Their power, too, is, in some measure, over- the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes,... | |
 | Montague Summers - 2003 - 356 pages
...Flaceus, vi, 447. 1" Lamb's splendid phrase on The Witeh of Middleton will be readily remembered : " The witches of Middleton are fine creations. Their...They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick seurf o'er life." 1s* Westermarck, op. cit., i, pp. 571-3, speaks of the witchcraft affecting men with... | |
 | 1808 - 674 pages
...is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have nu names, which heightens their mysterious« ness. The names and some of the properties which Middleton...Middleton are fine creations. Their power, too, is in .-.nue measure over the mind. They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, like a thick scurf o'er life."... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1907 - 312 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." JULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR was one of three principal plays by different authors, pitched... | |
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