 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 464 страници
...character between a Scott, a Shakspeare, and a Goethe ? Yet it is a difference literally immense : they are of different species ; the value of the one is not...never getting near the heart of them ! The one set became living men and women ; the other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 536 страници
...character between a Scott, and a Shakspeare, a Goethe. Yet it is a difference literally immense ; they are of different species ; the value of the one is not...Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which, it was once said, Scolt had ' done Goethe the honour ' to borrow. He has borrowed what he could of Mignon. The small... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 страници
...character between a Scott, and a Shakspeare, a Goethe. Yet it is a difference literally immense ; they are of different species; the value of the one is not...Compare Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which, it was once said,Scott had 'done Goethe the honour" to borrow. He ha» horrowed what he could of Mignon. The small... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 страници
...We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his character from the heart outwards : your Scott fashions them...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." This assertion of a difference in kind, I consider very far from doing justice to Scott. I fully believe... | |
 | 1880 - 556 страници
...the coin of the other. We might say in a short word, which covers a long matter, that our Shakespeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ;...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons."* And then he goes on to contrast Fenella in Peveril of the Peak with Goethe's Mignon. Mr. Carlyle could... | |
 | James Crabb Watt - 1880 - 320 страници
...successors, who all deal with the intense present, and intense reality. SaidCarlyle: " Your Shakespere fashions his characters from the heart outwards ;...inwards, never getting near the heart of them." The justice of this judgment has been only feebly impugned. It is because he seldom gets near the heart,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 362 страници
...nearer the heart of them." " The one set," Mr. Carlyle says, meaning the creations of Shakespeare, " become living men and women ; the other amount to...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." " Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating in any shape!"... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 406 страници
...nearer the heart of them." "The one set," Mr. Carlyle says, meaning the creations of Shakspeare, " become living men and women ; the other amount to...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." " Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building up or elevating in any shape... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 494 страници
...character between a Scott, and a Shakspeare, a Goethe. Yet it is a difference literally immense ; they are of different species ; the value of the one is not...which, it was once said, Scott had " done Goethe the honor " to borrow. He has borrowed what he could of Mignon. The small stature, the climbing talent,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 272 страници
...might say,' continues Carlyle, ' in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakespeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ;...mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons. ... To the same purport, indeed, we are to say that these famed books are altogether addressed to the... | |
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We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them... 
