The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel Johnson's Preface and Notes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...Munroe & Frances, 1802 |
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... lives , and even their shape , make , and features have been the fubject of critical enquiries . How trifling foever this curiofity may feem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly fatisfied with an ac- count of any ...
... lives , and even their shape , make , and features have been the fubject of critical enquiries . How trifling foever this curiofity may feem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly fatisfied with an ac- count of any ...
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... live him ; and fince he could not know what might be faid of him when he was dead , he defired it might be done immediately : upon which Shakfpere gave him thefe four verfes : Ten in the hundred lies here engrav'd , " Tis a hundred to ...
... live him ; and fince he could not know what might be faid of him when he was dead , he defired it might be done immediately : upon which Shakfpere gave him thefe four verfes : Ten in the hundred lies here engrav'd , " Tis a hundred to ...
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... lives , than to take any fingle great action , and form his work fimply upon that . However , there are fome of his pieces where the fable is founded upon one action only . Such are more especially , Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and ...
... lives , than to take any fingle great action , and form his work fimply upon that . However , there are fome of his pieces where the fable is founded upon one action only . Such are more especially , Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and ...
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... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this may imagine more . He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Acti- um . Delufion ...
... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this may imagine more . He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Acti- um . Delufion ...
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... lives into plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are always crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more eafily caught than by fentiment or ...
... lives into plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are always crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more eafily caught than by fentiment or ...
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الصفحة 37 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's Spring, but sorrow's Fall.
الصفحة 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
الصفحة 31 - 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.
الصفحة 13 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
الصفحة 27 - Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice.
الصفحة 17 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
الصفحة 55 - 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 : the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake ; and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar : graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art...
الصفحة 36 - 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 40 - Medea could, in so short a time, have transported him; he knows with certainty that he has not changed his place, and he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis.
الصفحة 50 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.