The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Band 3R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... letter , from Mr. Burke to to Mr. Malone ; which I have subjoined as an intro- duction to this Essay . It was written in 1790 , upon receiving Mr. Malone's edition of Shakspeare , which was published in that year : 6 % My dear Sir ...
... letter , from Mr. Burke to to Mr. Malone ; which I have subjoined as an intro- duction to this Essay . It was written in 1790 , upon receiving Mr. Malone's edition of Shakspeare , which was published in that year : 6 % My dear Sir ...
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... letter of the Scripture , or the respec- tive legend . But the Moralities indicate dawnings of the dramatick art : they contain some rudiments of a plot , and even attempt to delineate characters , and to paint manners . From hence the ...
... letter of the Scripture , or the respec- tive legend . But the Moralities indicate dawnings of the dramatick art : they contain some rudiments of a plot , and even attempt to delineate characters , and to paint manners . From hence the ...
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... letters patent from King Charles the Sixth , in 1402 , and had for near 150 years exhibited religious plays , built their new theatre on the site of the Duke of Burgundy's house ; and were authorised by an arret of parliament to act ...
... letters patent from King Charles the Sixth , in 1402 , and had for near 150 years exhibited religious plays , built their new theatre on the site of the Duke of Burgundy's house ; and were authorised by an arret of parliament to act ...
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... Letter recommending the Queen of Bohemia's players , - 1629. - 15 . 32. Answer . " 13. 117. Players at Chesterton , 1590. " STEEVENS . 8 History of English Poetry , vol . ii . p . 388 . before Shakspeare appeared , were scholars ...
... Letter recommending the Queen of Bohemia's players , - 1629. - 15 . 32. Answer . " 13. 117. Players at Chesterton , 1590. " STEEVENS . 8 History of English Poetry , vol . ii . p . 388 . before Shakspeare appeared , were scholars ...
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... letters were obtained of the Lords to banish them on the Sabbath days . Upon these orders against the players , the Queen's players petitioned the Lords of the Councel , That whereas the time of their service drew very near , so that of ...
... letters were obtained of the Lords to banish them on the Sabbath days . Upon these orders against the players , the Queen's players petitioned the Lords of the Councel , That whereas the time of their service drew very near , so that of ...
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Seite 106 - 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 72 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ] and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place ; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Seite 200 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Seite 67 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Seite 134 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 67 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale.
Seite 81 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Seite 240 - In Rome were wise, acknowledginge no lawes " But what their swords did ratifye, the wives " And daughters of the senators bowinge to " Their wills, as deities,
Seite 356 - Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment, or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated.
Seite 155 - M. William Shak-speare : His True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters.