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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... language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and ...
... language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and ...
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... before him , may here be cured of his delirious ecftafies , by reading human fenti- ments in human language ; by fcenes from which a [ A4 ] hermit hermit may estimate the tranfactions of the world , and PR E F A C. E ..
... before him , may here be cured of his delirious ecftafies , by reading human fenti- ments in human language ; by fcenes from which a [ A4 ] hermit hermit may estimate the tranfactions of the world , and PR E F A C. E ..
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... language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . The force of his comick scenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a ...
... language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . The force of his comick scenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a ...
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... language , as to remain settled and unaltered ; this ftyle is pro- bably to be fought in the common intercourse of life , among those who speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching ...
... language , as to remain settled and unaltered ; this ftyle is pro- bably to be fought in the common intercourse of life , among those who speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching ...
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... language is intricate the thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial fentiments and vul- gar ideas disappoint the attention , to which ...
... language is intricate the thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial fentiments and vul- gar ideas disappoint the attention , to which ...
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الصفحة 292 - 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 98 - 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 63 - 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 19 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
الصفحة 53 - Perhaps the lightness of the matter may conduce to the vehemence of the agency; when the truth to be investigated is so near to inexistence, as to escape attention, its bulk is to be enlarged by rage and exclamation: That to which all would be indifferent in its original state, may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it.
الصفحة 215 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! 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: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
الصفحة 27 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
الصفحة 11 - Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy; it required only a calamitous conclusion, with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied, whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress.
الصفحة 229 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
الصفحة 4 - 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.