 Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope, and errorless purpose: Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Sylvia, Viola, Rosalind, Helena, and last, and perhaps loveliest,...  Education: How Old the New - Side 240af James Joseph Walsh - 1910 - 459 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1910 - 490 sider
...literature, since kinds began to be produced to her special taste; for it is hardly an accident that the rers de societe should expand, and the novel originate,...the Greeks. In practically all the extant plays of yEschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, women are the heroines. They are represented as nobler, braver,... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1910 - 480 sider
...kinds began to be produced to her special taste; for it is hardly an accident that the vers de societc should expand, and the novel originate, in periods...the Greeks. In practically all the extant plays of ^schylus, Sophocles and Euripides, women are the heroines. They are represented as nobler, braver,... | |
 | 1910 - 520 sider
...yet the despairing toy of chance, followed, comforted, saved, by Rosalind. Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope and errorless purpose: Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Silvia, Viola, Rosalind,... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 586 sider
...yet the despairing toy of chance, followed, comforted, •^aved, by Rosalind. Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope, and errorless in purpose; Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Sylvia, Viola,... | |
 | Jessie Thomas Knapp - 1920 - 254 sider
...perfect plays Othello is the only example even approximating the heroic type. Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope and errorless in purpose; Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Sylvia, Viola,... | |
 | Jessie Thomas Knapp - 1920 - 254 sider
...perfect plays Othello is the only example even approximating the heroic type. Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope and erroiless in purpose; Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Sylvia,... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1927 - 366 sider
...Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dante, Aeschylus and other such. " There is hardly a play (of Shakespeare's) that has not a perfect woman in it steadfast in grave hope and errorless purpose." " Such is Shakespeare's testimony to the position and character of women in human life. He represents... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1928 - 790 sider
...Virgilia] RUSKIN (Sesame and Lilies, II, § 56) declares that Shakespeare has no heroes, only heroines. There is scarcely a play that has not a perfect woman in it. ' Virgilia is perhaps loveliest of all.' Again in Proserpina, II, i (5), he speaks of Virgilia as the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1928 - 828 sider
...Virgilia] RUSKIN (Sesame and Lilies, II, § 56) declares that Shakespeare has no heroes, only heroines. There is scarcely a play that has not a perfect woman in it. 'Virgilia is perhaps loveliest of all.' Again in Proserpina, II, i (5), he speaks of Virgilia as the... | |
 | Betty Steele - 1991 - 294 sider
...no less noble, is yet the despairing toy of chance . . . saved by Rosalind. Whereas there is hardly a play that has not a perfect woman in it, steadfast in grave hope and errorless purpose: Cordelia, Desdemona, Isabella, Hermione, Imogen, Queen Katherine, Perdita, Sylvia, Viola, Rosalind,... | |
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