Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... Juliet is one of the best and moft regular tra- gedies this poet ever wrote , and , in my opinion , by far the most affecting . The fable of it is very well known ; as to the unities , we are not to expect them : there are fame ftriking ...
... Juliet is one of the best and moft regular tra- gedies this poet ever wrote , and , in my opinion , by far the most affecting . The fable of it is very well known ; as to the unities , we are not to expect them : there are fame ftriking ...
الصفحة 69
... Juliet awakes . But in this , and fome other cir cumstances , Mrs. Lenox has fhewed he copied a tranflation from the original no- vel of Bandello , whereon the poet built the fable of his tragedy . Bandello him- felf makes Juliet awake ...
... Juliet awakes . But in this , and fome other cir cumstances , Mrs. Lenox has fhewed he copied a tranflation from the original no- vel of Bandello , whereon the poet built the fable of his tragedy . Bandello him- felf makes Juliet awake ...
الصفحة 70
... Juliet is no more . anfwer is great and pathetic : Is it even fo ? Then I defy the stars . Romeo's In the original of Bandello , when he is told of this event , aftonishment and grief for fome moments deprive him of fpeech ; recovering ...
... Juliet is no more . anfwer is great and pathetic : Is it even fo ? Then I defy the stars . Romeo's In the original of Bandello , when he is told of this event , aftonishment and grief for fome moments deprive him of fpeech ; recovering ...
الصفحة 71
... Juliet : This is a ftriking propriety . But the tranflator of this novel into Eng- lish , makes Romeo , immediately refolve- to poison himself ; and Shakespear has . copied him I wonder Mr. Garrick did not alter this circumftance ...
... Juliet : This is a ftriking propriety . But the tranflator of this novel into Eng- lish , makes Romeo , immediately refolve- to poison himself ; and Shakespear has . copied him I wonder Mr. Garrick did not alter this circumftance ...
الصفحة 72
... on The dafning rocks my fea - fick , weary bark : Here's to my love ! Oh , true apothecary ! [ Drinks the poison . Thy drugs are quick . Thus with a kifs I die . [ Dies . When ง When the friar comes , Juliet awakes , and being ( 72 )
... on The dafning rocks my fea - fick , weary bark : Here's to my love ! Oh , true apothecary ! [ Drinks the poison . Thy drugs are quick . Thus with a kifs I die . [ Dies . When ง When the friar comes , Juliet awakes , and being ( 72 )
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الصفحة 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
الصفحة 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
الصفحة 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
الصفحة 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
الصفحة 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
الصفحة 40 - IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries.
الصفحة 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
الصفحة 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
الصفحة 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
الصفحة 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...