Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 Seiten |
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... obscure which he had not en- deavoured to illustrate . We may neglect the earlier eighteenth - century editions of Shakespeare , but if we neglect Johnson's we run a serious risk . We may now abandon his text ; we must rely on later ...
... obscure which he had not en- deavoured to illustrate . We may neglect the earlier eighteenth - century editions of Shakespeare , but if we neglect Johnson's we run a serious risk . We may now abandon his text ; we must rely on later ...
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... obscure and turgid ; so his characteristical excellences may possibly be reduced to these three general heads - his lively creative imagination , his strokes of nature and passion , and his preservation of the consistency of his ...
... obscure and turgid ; so his characteristical excellences may possibly be reduced to these three general heads - his lively creative imagination , his strokes of nature and passion , and his preservation of the consistency of his ...
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... obscure by contracting my note ; for you must understand that almost all that Preface ( except what relates to Shakespeare's Life , and the foolish Greek conjectures at the end ) was made up of notes I sent him on particular passages ...
... obscure by contracting my note ; for you must understand that almost all that Preface ( except what relates to Shakespeare's Life , and the foolish Greek conjectures at the end ) was made up of notes I sent him on particular passages ...
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... obscurity . He was the friend of Concanen and Theobald , and in a letter to the former , containing his earliest extant attempt at Shake- spearian criticism , he observes that " Dryden borrows for want of leisure , and Pope for want of ...
... obscurity . He was the friend of Concanen and Theobald , and in a letter to the former , containing his earliest extant attempt at Shake- spearian criticism , he observes that " Dryden borrows for want of leisure , and Pope for want of ...
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... obscure , and whole Scenes which ought to be alter'd . I have , Sir , employ'd some Time and Pains , and that little Judgment which I have acquir'd in these Matters by a long and a faithful reading both of Ancients and Moderns , in ...
... obscure , and whole Scenes which ought to be alter'd . I have , Sir , employ'd some Time and Pains , and that little Judgment which I have acquir'd in these Matters by a long and a faithful reading both of Ancients and Moderns , in ...
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Seite 103 - 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 7 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Seite lxii - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Seite 110 - 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 103 - Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world...
Seite 101 - ... always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Seite 121 - perhaps we are not to look for his beginning, like those of other writers, in his least perfect works ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did that for aught I know," says he, " the performances of his youth, as they were the most vigorous, were the best.
Seite 106 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Seite 109 - ... while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur, and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it. Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is subtle, or the image always great where the V/V line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected, and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the attention, to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures.
Seite 112 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.