The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index, Volume 1 |
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Pagina 15
... English portraits , examples of rectilineal ruffs are familiar ; but where will be found such another as the German has placed un- der the chin of his metamorphosed poet ? from its pointed cor- ners , resembling the wings of a bat ...
... English portraits , examples of rectilineal ruffs are familiar ; but where will be found such another as the German has placed un- der the chin of his metamorphosed poet ? from its pointed cor- ners , resembling the wings of a bat ...
Pagina 28
... of Cato de- serted their comrade when he became bloated with poison- crescens fugere cadaver . It is our opinion , in short , that every * Tempest . one who opens the page of an ancient English writer 28 ADVERTISEMENT .
... of Cato de- serted their comrade when he became bloated with poison- crescens fugere cadaver . It is our opinion , in short , that every * Tempest . one who opens the page of an ancient English writer 28 ADVERTISEMENT .
Pagina 29
... English writer , should bring with him some knowledge ; and yet he by whom a thousand minutiæ remain to be learned , needs not to close our author's volume in despair , for his spirit and general drift are always obvious , though his ...
... English writer , should bring with him some knowledge ; and yet he by whom a thousand minutiæ remain to be learned , needs not to close our author's volume in despair , for his spirit and general drift are always obvious , though his ...
Pagina 39
... English language to deliver them . Upon his eaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of ving which his father proposed to him ; * and in or- der to settle n the world after a family manner , he thought fit to marry ...
... English language to deliver them . Upon his eaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of ving which his father proposed to him ; * and in or- der to settle n the world after a family manner , he thought fit to marry ...
Pagina 48
... English Hero . " This elogium on our author is likewise recorded at an earlier period by Tate , probably from the same authority , in the pre- face to The Loyal General , quarto , 1680 : “ Our learned Hales was wont to assert , that ...
... English Hero . " This elogium on our author is likewise recorded at an earlier period by Tate , probably from the same authority , in the pre- face to The Loyal General , quarto , 1680 : “ Our learned Hales was wont to assert , that ...
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Pagina 71 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions...
Pagina 348 - The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! My SHAKESPEARE rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Pagina 350 - And joy'd to wear the dressing of his lines! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family.
Pagina 80 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Pagina 176 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
Pagina 116 - Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination...
Pagina 71 - Sufflaminandus erat,' as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it had been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Pagina 127 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Pagina 273 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 4 Go closely in with me.] ie secretly, privately. To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Pagina 104 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent. in perfect health, and memory, (God be praised!) do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following; that is to say: First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.