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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... once recall the grandeur of monologue which characterises " Richard II . " ; the whirling passion of " Julius Cæsar " and " Antony and Cleopatra " ; the biting cynicism of " Richard III . , " and wonder if Dr. Johnson did more than ...
... once recall the grandeur of monologue which characterises " Richard II . " ; the whirling passion of " Julius Cæsar " and " Antony and Cleopatra " ; the biting cynicism of " Richard III . , " and wonder if Dr. Johnson did more than ...
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... once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy , of Charlecote , near Stratford . For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman , as he thought , somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage , he made a ballad ...
... once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy , of Charlecote , near Stratford . For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman , as he thought , somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage , he made a ballad ...
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... , 66 " The Comedy of Errors , " for which the " Menæchmi " and the Amphitruo " of Plautus are considered as foundation plays . " Troilus and Cressida . " 1 they cried , he never once made a blot . 38 FAMOUS INTRODUCTIONS.
... , 66 " The Comedy of Errors , " for which the " Menæchmi " and the Amphitruo " of Plautus are considered as foundation plays . " Troilus and Cressida . " 1 they cried , he never once made a blot . 38 FAMOUS INTRODUCTIONS.
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Beverley Ellison Warner. they cried , he never once made a blot . Nay , the spirit of opposition ran so high , that ... once , to equal him ; and ( which is very par- ticular ) expressly vindicates him from the imputation of wanting art ...
Beverley Ellison Warner. they cried , he never once made a blot . Nay , the spirit of opposition ran so high , that ... once , to equal him ; and ( which is very par- ticular ) expressly vindicates him from the imputation of wanting art ...
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... once upon the eye , diffuse and throw them- selves out to the mind . The prospect is too wide to come within the compass of a single view ; it is a gay confusion of pleasing objects , too various to be enjoyed but in a general ...
... once upon the eye , diffuse and throw them- selves out to the mind . The prospect is too wide to come within the compass of a single view ; it is a gay confusion of pleasing objects , too various to be enjoyed but in a general ...
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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.