The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....T. Bensley, 1800 |
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... learning have made famous , to deliver fome account of themselves , as well as their works , to pos- terity . For this reason , how fond do we fee some people of discovering any little personal story of the great men of antiquity ...
... learning have made famous , to deliver fome account of themselves , as well as their works , to pos- terity . For this reason , how fond do we fee some people of discovering any little personal story of the great men of antiquity ...
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... learning to admire him . His acquaintance with Ben Jonfon began with a remarkable piece of humanity and good - nature ; Mr. Jonfon , who was at that time altogether unknown to the world , had offered one of his plays to the players , in ...
... learning to admire him . His acquaintance with Ben Jonfon began with a remarkable piece of humanity and good - nature ; Mr. Jonfon , who was at that time altogether unknown to the world , had offered one of his plays to the players , in ...
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... learning , has , in his Arcadia , confounded the paftoral with the feudal times , the days of innocence , quiet , and fecurity , with those of turbu- lence , violence , and adventure . In his comick scenes he is feldom very fuccefsful ...
... learning , has , in his Arcadia , confounded the paftoral with the feudal times , the days of innocence , quiet , and fecurity , with those of turbu- lence , violence , and adventure . In his comick scenes he is feldom very fuccefsful ...
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... learning which I must oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him . : His hiftories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are His xlii DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . foft and pathetick without fome idle conceit, or contemp- ...
... learning which I must oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him . : His hiftories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are His xlii DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . foft and pathetick without fome idle conceit, or contemp- ...
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... learning may be produced against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be suspected , that these precepts ...
... learning may be produced against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be suspected , that these precepts ...
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Afide againſt almoſt anſwer ARIEL becauſe beſt Caliban comedy criticks defire diſcover doth Duke duke of Milan elſe Engliſh Enter Exeunt Exit fafe faid fame feems fervant fhall fhew fince firſt fome fometimes fpirit ftand fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed fure fweet gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona hath himſelf Hoft honour iſland Julia king laſt Laun learning leaſt lord loſe Macbeth madam maſter Milan Mira miſtreſs moft monſter moſt mufick muft muſt myſelf obferved paffage Plautus play pleaſe pleaſure Plutarch poet praiſe prefent preſent PROSPERO Proteus publiſhed purpoſe reaſon reft ſay ſcenes ſeem Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's ſhall ſhe ſhould Silvia ſome ſpeak Speed ſtage ſtand ſtate Stephano ſtill ſtory ſtrange ſuch Sycorax thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou Thurio tranflated Trin Trinculo uſe Valentine whoſe writers
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Seite 43 - 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.
Seite 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Seite xlii - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Seite 64 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Seite 64 - 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 wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Seite 10 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Seite xxxiv - ... 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 reveller is...
Seite xxx - 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.
Seite 26 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Seite lxx - ... which all would be indifferent in its original state may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it. A commentator has indeed great temptations to supply by turbulence what he wants of dignity, to beat his little gold to a spacious surface, to work that to foam which no art or diligence can exalt to spirit.