The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rifhed ; his works fupport no opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with ...
... scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rifhed ; his works fupport no opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with ...
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... tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and ftudy , what is written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes , he feems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy 12 PREFACE .
... tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and ftudy , what is written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes , he feems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy 12 PREFACE .
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... scenes there is always fomething wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expectation or defire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to ...
... scenes there is always fomething wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expectation or defire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to ...
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... scenes proves but little ; he might eafily procure them to be written , and probably , even though he had known the language in the common degree , he could not have written it without affiftance . In the story of Romeo and Juliet he is ...
... scenes proves but little ; he might eafily procure them to be written , and probably , even though he had known the language in the common degree , he could not have written it without affiftance . In the story of Romeo and Juliet he is ...
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... scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but he never executes his purpose better , than when he tries to footh by ...
... scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but he never executes his purpose better , than when he tries to footh by ...
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الصفحة 218 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the muses still were in their prime When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears ; or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
الصفحة 65 - 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.
الصفحة 100 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And '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...
الصفحة 16 - 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.
الصفحة 294 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
الصفحة 4 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 6 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
الصفحة 40 - ... profit. When his plays had been acted, his hope was at an end ; he solicited no addition of honour from the reader.
الصفحة 64 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
الصفحة 216 - 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...