Shakespeare Commentaries, Band 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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Seite 129 - of the time, his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others." Certainly, nothing could be more condemnatory, than if we should apply these words as
Seite 252 - Puck, come hither; Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick. That very time I saw
Seite 225 - he associated with Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Ben Jonson, and other intellectual contemporaries, and there according to Beaumont in his address to Ben Jonson, were "heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest".
Seite 176 - blank-verse, as the best of you : and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country. O! that I might entreat your rare wits to be employed in more profitable courses, and let these apes imitate your past excellence, and never more acquaint them with your admired inventions.
Seite 302 - momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up"; but
Seite 589 - here and there, And made myself a motley to the view ; Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new ; Most true it is that I have look'd on truth Askance and strangely ; but, by all above, These blenches gave my heart another youth". Is it not as if Prince Henry
Seite 514 - effect, which friar Francis had wisely intended. He had calculated in this deception upon Claudio's changeableness. "It so falls out", he says, "That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value".
Seite 312 - such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The scull that bred them, in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea ; the beautious scarf Veiling an Indian beauty;
Seite 177 - excellent in the quality he professed. Besides, he adds, "divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art." Thus have we here the first testimony, which concedes to Shakespeare equal honour in his new career, as a poet, an actor, and a man. THE COMEDY
Seite 48 - having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed, behind, a dream. All this the world well knows, yet none knows well, To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. SHAKESPEARE'S