The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, المجلد 1 |
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الصفحة v
... mind contemplates ge * nius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great con- tention of criticifm is to find the faults of the mo- derns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an au ...
... mind contemplates ge * nius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great con- tention of criticifm is to find the faults of the mo- derns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an au ...
الصفحة viii
... mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at leaft above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His ...
... mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at leaft above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His ...
الصفحة ix
... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a species . It is from this wide extenfion of ...
... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a species . It is from this wide extenfion of ...
الصفحة xiii
... minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing comick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all ...
... minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing comick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all ...
الصفحة xiv
... mind but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided be- tween ferious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fometimes pro- duce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
... mind but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided be- tween ferious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fometimes pro- duce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
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الصفحة x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. 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 xxv - 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 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
الصفحة xxii - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. 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 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
الصفحة 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
الصفحة 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
الصفحة xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
الصفحة lxxiii - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.