...masque of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bell-man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a AVcbster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate" but they...

...element." She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake...

...element." She speaks the dialect of despair ; her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this. They mistake...

...of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bell-man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate " but they cannot do this....

...masque of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bellman, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees ! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate," but they cannot do this....

...little extravagance, or so much of the true terrific. " To move a horror skilfully," says Lamb, — " to touch a soul to the quick, — to lay upon fear...take its last forfeit, — this only a Webster can db. Writers of an inferior genius may ' upon horror's head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do...

...terrible ghastly looks." " To move a horror 58 The Old English Dramatists. [July, skilfully," says Lamb, " to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as...its last forfeit, — this only a Webster can do." Few dramatists, indeed, equal him in the steadiness with which he gazes into the awful depths of passion,...

...the tragedy of passion. Lamb has beautifully deseribed Webster, as almost alone having the power " to move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the...with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit." Lamb adds, " Writers of inferior genius mistake quantity for quality." The remark is quite true, —...

...any one try which is the STUDIES OF SHAKSPERE. more easy, " to touch a soul to the quick, to lay npon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop," as Charles Lamb describes the tragic art of Webster ; or to make a Desdemona, amidst the indignities...

...skilfully," says Lamb, "to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to ivean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then...its last forfeit, — this only a Webster can do." Few dramatists, indeed, equal him in the steadiness with which he gazes into the awful depths of passion,...