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These peculiarities of King Lear have been thought to make it unfit for the stage. Lamb, in the midst of scathing remarks about one who had mutilated the plot and aspired to improve on Shakspere, asserts that Lear cannot be acted. Such a judgment may be regarded as a bolder impeachment of Shakspere than the mere alteration of a plot, since it condemns, not a part, but the whole, for the purpose for which it was written. For I take it that closet tragedies are not produced until authors get to be more in love with themselves than with nature...
Think what would happen if we could fancy during our waking hours the visions that flit through our minds when asleep! Why, we should all be poets. Charles Lamb was mortified by the "poverty" of his dreams, and envied Coleridge, who at his will, could conjure up airy domes and pleasure houses for Kubla Khan and Abyssinian maids, to solace his night solitudes, while he, Lamb, could not muster a fiddle. And so he concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend...
...class in English V has decided that the themes of the next four months shall be based upon a study of well-known authors. Selections will be made among such writers as Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Tnackeray, and Lamb, and the themes must be in some way connected with the works of the authors chosen. DeQuincey has been taken for the December themes. His works will be placed either in the English alcove of the library, or in Sever...
...play. Robinson and Terry did the best work for Yale, the former making several brilliant rushes and scoring three touchdowns; Terry made another from which the goal was kicked. Twombly and Badger did the most effective playing for the Graduates. The Graduates who played were Beck, Twombly, Moorhead, Harding, Lamb, Gill and Badger, of Yale, and McIntyre of Princeton. Louis K. Hall acted as one of the umpires, and Farwell, '84, as referee...
...American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...