The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Band 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... fecond folio . On the firft of thefe contefted matters 4 See alfo Addifon's Spectator , No. 470 . we commit ourselves to the publick ear ; on the 42 ADVERTISEMENT .
... fecond folio . On the firft of thefe contefted matters 4 See alfo Addifon's Spectator , No. 470 . we commit ourselves to the publick ear ; on the 42 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... fecond folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it appeared , fome in- telligent friend or admirer of Shakspeare might have obferved its defects , and corrected ...
... fecond folio ( about which no certainty can be obtained ) perhaps is not very remote from truth . When the predeceffor of it appeared , fome in- telligent friend or admirer of Shakspeare might have obferved its defects , and corrected ...
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... folio therefore of 1623 , corrected from one or both the authorities above mentioned , we conceive to have been the ... fecond folio for perhaps no fuch literary agent as an editor of a poetical work , unaccompanied by comments ...
... folio therefore of 1623 , corrected from one or both the authorities above mentioned , we conceive to have been the ... fecond folio for perhaps no fuch literary agent as an editor of a poetical work , unaccompanied by comments ...
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... fecond folio , which in feveral instances have been justly reprobated by the laft editor of Shakspeare . What errors then might not have been expected , when compofitors were wholly unlettered and care- lefs , and a corrector of the ...
... fecond folio , which in feveral instances have been justly reprobated by the laft editor of Shakspeare . What errors then might not have been expected , when compofitors were wholly unlettered and care- lefs , and a corrector of the ...
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... fecond folio of our author's plays . He al- ways ftood forward as a determined advocate for its authority , on which , we believe , more than one of his emendations were formed . At least , we are certain that he never attempted any ...
... fecond folio of our author's plays . He al- ways ftood forward as a determined advocate for its authority , on which , we believe , more than one of his emendations were formed . At least , we are certain that he never attempted any ...
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Seite 480 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Seite 249 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Seite 305 - I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
Seite 265 - 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.
Seite 251 - 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.
Seite 282 - ... 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.
Seite 257 - 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 of one man may be the relief of another ; that different auditors have different habitudes ; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety.
Seite 248 - 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.
Seite 250 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow; to distress them as nothing...
Seite 248 - 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.