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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... obscurity elucidated , then , and not till then , let the accumulation of notes be complained of . " Malone's chief I consider that contribution to Shakespearean literature in this introduction is his estimate of the value of first ...
... obscurity elucidated , then , and not till then , let the accumulation of notes be complained of . " Malone's chief I consider that contribution to Shakespearean literature in this introduction is his estimate of the value of first ...
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... obscure entry . A glare of light suddenly breaks upon you , beyond what the avenue at first promised , and a thousand beauties of genius and character , like so many gaudy . apartments pouring at once upon the eye , diffuse and throw ...
... obscure entry . A glare of light suddenly breaks upon you , beyond what the avenue at first promised , and a thousand beauties of genius and character , like so many gaudy . apartments pouring at once upon the eye , diffuse and throw ...
الصفحة 73
... obscure and difficult ones ; and an enquiry into the beauties and defects of composition . This work is principally con- fined to the two former parts : though there are some specimens interspersed of the latter kind , as several of the ...
... obscure and difficult ones ; and an enquiry into the beauties and defects of composition . This work is principally con- fined to the two former parts : though there are some specimens interspersed of the latter kind , as several of the ...
الصفحة 75
... obscure point of history : others , where allusions are to divinity , philosophy , or other branches of science . Some are added to show where there is a suspicion of our author having borrowed from the ancients : others , to show where ...
... obscure point of history : others , where allusions are to divinity , philosophy , or other branches of science . Some are added to show where there is a suspicion of our author having borrowed from the ancients : others , to show where ...
الصفحة 76
... obscure and difficult . To understand the necessity and use of this part of my task , some particulars of my author's character are previously to be explained . There are obscurities in him , which are common to him with all poets of ...
... obscure and difficult . To understand the necessity and use of this part of my task , some particulars of my author's character are previously to be explained . There are obscurities in him , which are common to him with all poets of ...
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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.