 To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior...  The Dramatic Works of John Webster - 第 246 頁John Webster 著 - 1857完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 頁
...Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready"fidrop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take itsiast forfeit : this only a Webster... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 頁
...Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 頁
...almost alone having the power " to move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life...with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit." Lamb adds, " Writers of inferior genius mistake quantity for quality." The remark is quite true, —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 頁
...Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life...with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit; 10* this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may "upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 464 頁
...almost alone having the power " to move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life...with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit." Lamh adds, " writers of inferior genius mistake quantity for quality." The remark is quite true ; when... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 頁
...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 bear, to wean and weary a life...Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may £t upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 434 頁
...Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life...in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit ; 10* this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may "upon horror's head horrors accumulate/' but... | |
 | John Webster - 1857 - 304 頁
...horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean aud weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeits: this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses ' upon horror's head horrors accumulate ;'... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 424 頁
...mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fuar as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till...it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instrumente to take its last forfeit ; this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 626 頁
...terrific. " 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 wean and weary...head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do this.''* Webster seems to have been a slow writer, which it may be presumed few of his contemporaries were.... | |
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