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الصفحة viii
... the comparison of Shakespeare's work with that of other great poets , ancient and modern - all this and more is promised in the Proposals . He seems to have hoped that viii INTRODUCTION PROPOSALS For Printing THE DRAMATICK WORKS.
... the comparison of Shakespeare's work with that of other great poets , ancient and modern - all this and more is promised in the Proposals . He seems to have hoped that viii INTRODUCTION PROPOSALS For Printing THE DRAMATICK WORKS.
الصفحة xii
... poets may be satisfied with fame , rich amateurs with elegance , missionaries and reformers with influence . But the publisher who should depend for his livelihood on the labours of these three classes would be in a poor way , and ...
... poets may be satisfied with fame , rich amateurs with elegance , missionaries and reformers with influence . But the publisher who should depend for his livelihood on the labours of these three classes would be in a poor way , and ...
الصفحة xxiii
... poet ; it is not a necessary qualification of the mature critic . The acclamation of his following is not so honourable a tribute to a prize - fighter as the respect of his antagonist . In a certain sense Johnson was antagonistic to ...
... poet ; it is not a necessary qualification of the mature critic . The acclamation of his following is not so honourable a tribute to a prize - fighter as the respect of his antagonist . In a certain sense Johnson was antagonistic to ...
الصفحة 3
... poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ; which must therefore be traced before he can be understood . He wrote at a time when our poetical language was yet unformed , when the meaning of our phrases was yet in ...
... poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ; which must therefore be traced before he can be understood . He wrote at a time when our poetical language was yet unformed , when the meaning of our phrases was yet in ...
الصفحة 10
... Poet , of whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly ...
... Poet , of whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly ...
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الصفحة 16 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
الصفحة 19 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...
الصفحة 16 - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
الصفحة 18 - Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion : even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life.
الصفحة 16 - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find.
الصفحة 14 - What mankind have long possessed they have often examined and compared, and if they persist to value the possession, it is because frequent comparisons have confirmed opinion in its favour.
الصفحة 28 - 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. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible.
الصفحة 21 - ... poetry. This reasoning is so specious, that it is received as true even by those who in daily experience feel it to be false. The interchanges of mingled scenes seldom fail to produce the intended vicissitudes of passion. Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance...
الصفحة 32 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment ; but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
الصفحة 18 - This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.