Shakespeare's kings are apt torant and mouth when first introduced; he seems to have thought pomp of speech went with royal robes; but when the action is engaged even his monarchs speak naturally.
We thus see that there is no real rant in Hamlet; he is not outbragging Laertes; but institutes the possible, in contradiction to swagger and mouthing.
But with all his rant he is invariably substantial, never aerial, and he chequers it in a Byronic manner with a sudden prose reference to bugs, or a question, or a piece of dialogue.
No wonder that critics and actors alike were offended by such insanity of rant and that Schiller himself soon saw the folly of it.
Even in the stage version there is quite too much ofrant and fustian.
At the same time, while there is an inclination to decry perhaps too strenuously the condition of the modern stage, it is fair to credit it with a measure of amendment in regard both to rant and gag.
The same speech condemns alike the rant of the tragedians and the gag of the comedians.
I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.
This account of the play's theme can give no idea of the false sentiment, the maudlin splutter of fine words, and the melodramatic rantwith which the play is loaded.
It is no less contrasted with the puerile rant of Rousseau against all territorial property.
The language is full of that rant which characterised Dryden’s earlier tragedies, and to which a natural predilection seems, after some interval, to have brought him back.
Rhetoric there is, and rhetoric that is not always effective;[494] but it is rather a perversion of the rhetoric of Vergil than the descendant of the brilliant rant of Lucan and Seneca.
At last after dreary tracts of empty rant we meet Seneca, the spiritual guide of the epistles and the treatises.
She goes on in a mighty Huff, and charges the Gods and Priesthood with Confederacy, and Imposture, This Rant is very unlikely at Alexandria.
That Rant of smut and profainness might have been spared.
But to some people an Atheistical Rant is as good as a Flourish of Trumpets.
Addison was only continuing the success of Rowe's "Tamerlane," reducing its rant to a more reasonable pattern.
A; b6] talk foolishly, rant often with no one present.
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