The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....T. Bensley, 1800 |
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Pagina vii
... acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put , after having turned it carelessly and fupercilioufly over , were just upon returning it to him with B4 with an ill natured answer , that it would be OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . vii.
... acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put , after having turned it carelessly and fupercilioufly over , were just upon returning it to him with B4 with an ill natured answer , that it would be OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . vii.
Pagina viii
William Shakespeare. with an ill natured answer , that it would be of ne service to their company ; when Shakspeare luckily caft his eye upon it , and found something so well in it , as to engage him first to read it through , and after ...
William Shakespeare. with an ill natured answer , that it would be of ne service to their company ; when Shakspeare luckily caft his eye upon it , and found something so well in it , as to engage him first to read it through , and after ...
Pagina x
... answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told pofterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted ...
... answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech . I had not told pofterity this , but for their ignorance , who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by , wherein he most faulted ...
Pagina li
... answered , that Addison speaks the language of poets , and Shakspeare , of men . We find in Cato innumerable beauties which enamour us of its author , E2 author , but we fee nothing that acquaints us with DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . li.
... answered , that Addison speaks the language of poets , and Shakspeare , of men . We find in Cato innumerable beauties which enamour us of its author , E2 author , but we fee nothing that acquaints us with DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . li.
Pagina lxxvi
... answer with confi- dence , that they are judging of an art which they do not understand ; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance , nor promife that they would become in ge- neral , by learning criticism , more useful ...
... answer with confi- dence , that they are judging of an art which they do not understand ; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance , nor promife that they would become in ge- neral , by learning criticism , more useful ...
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Pagina 43 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Pagina 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Pagina xlii - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Pagina 64 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Pagina 64 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Pagina 10 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Pagina xxxiv - ... state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is...
Pagina xxx - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Pagina 26 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Pagina lxx - ... which all would be indifferent in its original state may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it. A commentator has indeed great temptations to supply by turbulence what he wants of dignity, to beat his little gold to a spacious surface, to work that to foam which no art or diligence can exalt to spirit.