The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens..H. Baldwin, 1793 |
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... mention of fuch an interpretation , is a fufficient refutation of it : and his critical word will be rather taken in Greek than in English : in the fame hands there- fore I will venture to leave all our author's know- ledge of the old ...
... mention of fuch an interpretation , is a fufficient refutation of it : and his critical word will be rather taken in Greek than in English : in the fame hands there- fore I will venture to leave all our author's know- ledge of the old ...
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... mention her elaborate portrait by Chaucer , in The Boke of Fame ; and by John Higgins , one of the affiftants in The Mirrour for Magiflrates , in his Legend of King Albanacte . А A very liberal writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had ...
... mention her elaborate portrait by Chaucer , in The Boke of Fame ; and by John Higgins , one of the affiftants in The Mirrour for Magiflrates , in his Legend of King Albanacte . А A very liberal writer on the Beauties of Poetry , who had ...
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... mentioning , that two or three more Latin paffages , which are met with in our s Mr. Johnson's edit . Vol . VIII . p . 171 . 6 I have met with a writer who tells us , that a translation of the Offices was printed by Caxton , in the year ...
... mentioning , that two or three more Latin paffages , which are met with in our s Mr. Johnson's edit . Vol . VIII . p . 171 . 6 I have met with a writer who tells us , that a translation of the Offices was printed by Caxton , in the year ...
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... mentioned , Mr. Ca- pell , ( for why should I not give myself the credit of his name ? ) hath been fortunate enough to pro- cure from the collection of the Duke of Newcastle , a complete copy of the Hyftorie of Hamblet , which proves to ...
... mentioned , Mr. Ca- pell , ( for why should I not give myself the credit of his name ? ) hath been fortunate enough to pro- cure from the collection of the Duke of Newcastle , a complete copy of the Hyftorie of Hamblet , which proves to ...
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... mention of it . Befides this , ( if indeed it were different , ) in the Gefta Grayorum , the Chriftmas Revels of the Grays- Inn Gentlemen , 1594 , a Comedy of Errors like to Plautus his Menechmus was played by the Players . " And the ...
... mention of it . Befides this , ( if indeed it were different , ) in the Gefta Grayorum , the Chriftmas Revels of the Grays- Inn Gentlemen , 1594 , a Comedy of Errors like to Plautus his Menechmus was played by the Players . " And the ...
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Seite 506 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much.
Seite 215 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Seite 506 - And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
Seite 176 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Seite 315 - Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make Essayes at Dramatique Poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his playes tooke well. He was a handsome well shap't man, very good company, and of a very readie and pleasant smooth witt.
Seite 182 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Seite 506 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 78 - How would it haue ioyed braue Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at seuerall times) who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Seite 530 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that...
Seite 137 - In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations) that, when players of enterludes come to...