Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
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music vaster and deeper, but not the same.
The changes observable in _Hamlet_ are afterwards, and gradually, so greatly developed that Shakespeare's style and versification at last become almost new things. It is extremely difficult to illustrate this briefly in a manner to which no just exception can be taken, for it is almost impossible to find in two plays passages bearing a sufficiently close resemblance to one another in occasion and sentiment. But I will venture to put by the first of those quotations from _Hamlet_ this from _Macbeth_: _Dun._ This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. _Ban._ This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle; Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate; and by the second quotation from _Hamlet_ this from _Antony and Cleopatra_: The miserable change now at my end Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts In feeding them with those my former fortunes |
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