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era. _the principle of analogy_. This point is enforced by Hazlitt in connection with "Lear," "The Tempest," "Midsummer Night's Dream," and "As You Like It." Coleridge had previously remarked, "A unity of feeling and character pervades every drama of Shakespeare" (Works IV, 61), and Schlegel had written in the same manner concerning "Romeo and Juliet": "The sweetest and the bitterest love and hatred, festive rejoicings and dark forebodings, tender embraces and sepulchral horrors, the fulness of life and self-annihilation, are here all brought close to each other; and yet these contrasts are so blended into a unity of impression, that the echo which the whole leaves behind in the mind resembles a single but endless sigh." (ed. Bohn, p. 401). P. 57. _Out of your proof_. iii, 3, 27. P. 58. _The game's afoot_. "The game is up," iii, 3, 107. _Under the shade_. "As You Like It," ii, 7, 111. P. 59. _See, boys_. "Stoop, boys," iii, 3, 2. _Nay, Cadwell_. iv, 2, 255. _Stick to your journal course_. iv, 2, 10. _Your highness_. i, 5, 23. MACBETH P. 60. _The poet's eye_. "Midsummer Night's Dream," v, 1, 12. _your only tragedy-maker_. An adaptation of "your only jig-maker," "Hamlet," iii, 2, 132. _the air smells wooingly, the temple-haunting martlet_. i, 6, 4-6. _blasted heath_. i, 3, 77. _air-drawn dagger_. iii, 4, 62. _the gracious Duncan_. iii, 1, 66. P. 61. _blood-boultered Banquo_. iv, 1, 123. _What are these_. i, 3, 39. _bends up_. i, 7, 80. P. 62. _The deed_. Cf. ii, 2, 11: "The attempt and not the deed confounds us." _preter_[super]_natural solicitings_. i, 3, 130. _Bring forth_. i, 7, 73. P. 63. _Screw his courage_. i, 7, 60. _lost so poorly_. Cf. ii, 2, 71: "Be not lost so poorly in your thoughts." _a little water_. ii, 2, 68. _the sides of his intent_. i, 7, 26. _for their future days and nights_. Cf. i, 5, 70: "To all our days and nights to come." The next five quotations are from the same scene. P. 64. _Mrs. Siddons_. Sarah Siddons (1775-1831), "The Tragic Muse," the most celebrated actress in the history of the English stage. Hazlitt wrote this passage for the Examiner (June 16, 1816) immediately after seeing a performance of the part by Mrs. Siddons. See Works, VIII, 312-373. P. 65. _There is no art_. i, 4, 11. _How goes the night_. ii, 1, 1. P. 66. _Light thickens_. iii, 2, 50. _Now spurs_. iii, 3, 6. P. 67. _So fair and foul a day_. i, 3, 3
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