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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... observed , that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected . When he found himself near the end of his work , and in view of his reward , he shortened the labour to fnatch the profit . He therefore remits his efforts ...
... observed , that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected . When he found himself near the end of his work , and in view of his reward , he shortened the labour to fnatch the profit . He therefore remits his efforts ...
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... observed : nor , if fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the comprehenfive genius of ...
... observed : nor , if fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the comprehenfive genius of ...
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... fables only fuch tales as he found tranflated . That much knowledge is fcattered over his works is very justly observed by Pope , but it is often fuch VOL . I. [ C ] know- knowledge as books did not fupply . He that will PREFACE . 33.
... fables only fuch tales as he found tranflated . That much knowledge is fcattered over his works is very justly observed by Pope , but it is often fuch VOL . I. [ C ] know- knowledge as books did not fupply . He that will PREFACE . 33.
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... observed , that the oldest poets of many nations preferve their reputation , and that the following generations of wit , after a fhort celebrity , fink into oblivion . The firft , whoever they be , must take their fentiments and ...
... observed , that the oldest poets of many nations preferve their reputation , and that the following generations of wit , after a fhort celebrity , fink into oblivion . The firft , whoever they be , must take their fentiments and ...
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... observe how much paper is wafted in confutation . Whoever confiders the revolutions of learning , and the various queftions of greater or lefs importance , upon which wit and reafon have exercised their powers , muft lament the ...
... observe how much paper is wafted in confutation . Whoever confiders the revolutions of learning , and the various queftions of greater or lefs importance , upon which wit and reafon have exercised their powers , muft lament the ...
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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.