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. Othello |
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The humour of Petruchio may be heightened by grimace ; but what voice or what gesture can hope to add dignity or force to the foliloquy of Cato ? A play A play read , affects the mind like a play 24 P R E F A C E.
The humour of Petruchio may be heightened by grimace ; but what voice or what gesture can hope to add dignity or force to the foliloquy of Cato ? A play A play read , affects the mind like a play 24 P R E F A C E.
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... endeavours solely to hit the taste and humour that then prevailed . The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people ; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank : accordingly we ...
... endeavours solely to hit the taste and humour that then prevailed . The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people ; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank : accordingly we ...
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As they live by the majority , they know no rule but that . of piealing the present humour , and complying with the wit in fashion ; a consideration which brings all their judgment to a short point . Players are just such judges of what ...
As they live by the majority , they know no rule but that . of piealing the present humour , and complying with the wit in fashion ; a consideration which brings all their judgment to a short point . Players are just such judges of what ...
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... and that he should throw this humourous piece of satire at his prosecutor , at least twenty years after the provocation given ; I am confidently persuaded it must be owing to an unforgiving rancour on the prosecutor's side : and if ...
... and that he should throw this humourous piece of satire at his prosecutor , at least twenty years after the provocation given ; I am confidently persuaded it must be owing to an unforgiving rancour on the prosecutor's side : and if ...
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Scenes were frequently transposed , and shuffled out of their true place , to humour the caprice , or supposed convenience of fome particular actor . Hence much confusion and impropricty has attended , and embarrafled the bufiness and ...
Scenes were frequently transposed , and shuffled out of their true place , to humour the caprice , or supposed convenience of fome particular actor . Hence much confusion and impropricty has attended , and embarrafled the bufiness and ...
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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...