The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....T. Bensley, 1800 |
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William Shakespeare. : in Bohemia , and fometimes in Sicily , according to the original order of the ftory . Almost all his hif- torical plays comprehend a great length of time , and very different and distinct places and in his Antony ...
William Shakespeare. : in Bohemia , and fometimes in Sicily , according to the original order of the ftory . Almost all his hif- torical plays comprehend a great length of time , and very different and distinct places and in his Antony ...
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... original pretty close , and taken in feveral little inci- dents that might have been spared in a play . But , as I hinted before , his defign feems moft commonly rather to defcribe those great men in the feveral fortunes and accidents ...
... original pretty close , and taken in feveral little inci- dents that might have been spared in a play . But , as I hinted before , his defign feems moft commonly rather to defcribe those great men in the feveral fortunes and accidents ...
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... original masters of our language . These observations are to be confidered not as unex- ceptionably conftant , but as containing general and pre- dominant truth . Shakspeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet ...
... original masters of our language . These observations are to be confidered not as unex- ceptionably conftant , but as containing general and pre- dominant truth . Shakspeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet ...
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... original ; as reprefenting to the auditor what he would himself feel , if he were to do or fuffer what is there feign- ed to be fuffered or to be done . The reflection that strikes the heart is not , that the evils before us are real ...
... original ; as reprefenting to the auditor what he would himself feel , if he were to do or fuffer what is there feign- ed to be fuffered or to be done . The reflection that strikes the heart is not , that the evils before us are real ...
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... original powers , and how much to cafual and adventitious help . The palaces of Peru or Mexico were certainly mean and incommodious habita- tions , if compared to the houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them with ...
... original powers , and how much to cafual and adventitious help . The palaces of Peru or Mexico were certainly mean and incommodious habita- tions , if compared to the houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them with ...
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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.