Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the Eighteenth CenturyBeverley Ellison Warner Dodd, Mead, 1906 - 268 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxv
... acquaintance are Alexander and Cæsar , or that a room illuminated with candles , is the plain of Pharsalia , or the bank of the Granicus , he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason , or of truth , and from the heights of ...
... acquaintance are Alexander and Cæsar , or that a room illuminated with candles , is the plain of Pharsalia , or the bank of the Granicus , he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason , or of truth , and from the heights of ...
الصفحة 9
... acquaintance in the play- house . He was received into the company then in being , at first in a very mean rank , but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon distinguished him , if not as an extraordinary ...
... acquaintance in the play- house . He was received into the company then in being , at first in a very mean rank , but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , soon distinguished him , if not as an extraordinary ...
الصفحة 11
... acquainted with the best conversations of those times . Queen Elizabeth had several of his plays acted before her , and without doubt gave him many gracious marks of her favour : it is that maiden princess plainly , whom he intends by ...
... acquainted with the best conversations of those times . Queen Elizabeth had several of his plays acted before her , and without doubt gave him many gracious marks of her favour : it is that maiden princess plainly , whom he intends by ...
الصفحة 12
... acquainted with his affairs , I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my Lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds , to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to . A bounty very ...
... acquainted with his affairs , I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my Lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds , to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to . A bounty very ...
الصفحة 13
... acquaintance with Ben Jonson began with a remarkable piece of humanity and good - nature ; Mr. Jonson , who was at that time altogether unknown to the world , had offered one of his plays to the players , in order to have it acted ; and ...
... acquaintance with Ben Jonson began with a remarkable piece of humanity and good - nature ; Mr. Jonson , who was at that time altogether unknown to the world , had offered one of his plays to the players , in order to have it acted ; and ...
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الصفحة 16 - 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...
الصفحة 266 - 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 To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
الصفحة 252 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
الصفحة 114 - 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.
الصفحة 124 - This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
الصفحة 20 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
الصفحة 126 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
الصفحة 123 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
الصفحة 20 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
الصفحة 4 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.