The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Band 3R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... writer , the titles are scarcely known , except to antiquaries ; nor is there one of them that will bear a second perusal ' . Yet I must be permitted to dissent from this sweeping censure passed upon all the predecessors of our great ...
... writer , the titles are scarcely known , except to antiquaries ; nor is there one of them that will bear a second perusal ' . Yet I must be permitted to dissent from this sweeping censure passed upon all the predecessors of our great ...
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... writer with great probability supposes it to have been composed in 1174 , the author in one pas- sage mentioning that the church of St. Paul's was formerly metro- political , and that it was thought it would become so again , " should ...
... writer with great probability supposes it to have been composed in 1174 , the author in one pas- sage mentioning that the church of St. Paul's was formerly metro- political , and that it was thought it would become so again , " should ...
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... writer whose words I have just quoted , has given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs which lasted ...
... writer whose words I have just quoted , has given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs which lasted ...
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... writer now living , who has investigated the history of human manners with great comprehension and sa- gacity . " Voltaire's theory on this subject is also very in- genious , and quite new . Religious plays , he 3 OF THE ENGLISH STAGE . 11.
... writer now living , who has investigated the history of human manners with great comprehension and sa- gacity . " Voltaire's theory on this subject is also very in- genious , and quite new . Religious plays , he 3 OF THE ENGLISH STAGE . 11.
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... writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety , nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all ...
... writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety , nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all ...
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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.