The First Part Of New Illustrations Of The Life Studies And Writings Of Shakespeare

Author : Joseph Hunter
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230420226
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The First Part of New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakespeare written by Joseph Hunter and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... Nay, never paint me now; Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow: Here, good my glass, take this for telling true: Fair payment for foul words is more than dne. While saying this she slips money into his hand. The abashed forester, who had meant nothing less than to have become the lady's looking-glass to reflect any thing but what was agreeable, repeats his assurance that he had the most exalted opinion of her perfections, " Nothing but fair is that which you inherit." When the Princess affects again to misunderstand him, and she now attributes the compliment paid to her to the gratuity she had just bestowed upon him, as if it were purchased by her: See, see, my beauty will be saved by merit: where " merit" is used in its theological sense, as acts of charity were by some spoken of as meritorious, efficacious to salvation. All this may be thought so clear as not to require these illustrative remarks, but it is evident by the note that Dr. Johnson had not a just conception of the sense of the passage: and it may not be equally clear that we have a continuation of the theological allusion in what follows: Now Mercy goes to kill. Where " Mercy" is a kind of personification. " Now Mercy goes to kill f that is, I, in whom Mercy, a form of charity, has been so eminently displayed that it has actually saved my beauty, am now going to commit acts of slaughter on these poor innocent deer. We have now done with the Forester, and we have some of Shakespeare's kindliest philosophy in the remainder of the Princess's speech. If she misses in the shooting, it is that pity moved her; if she wounds, being, as she is, Mercy personified, it is not to pain the sufferer, but to gain praise and glory for herself, on which Shakespeare builds this just...