The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....T. Bensley, 1800 |
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... Such is the triumphant language with which a critick exults over the mifery of an irregular poet , and exults commonly without refiftance or reply . It is time there- fore to tell him , by the authority of Shakspeare , that he affumes ...
... Such is the triumphant language with which a critick exults over the mifery of an irregular poet , and exults commonly without refiftance or reply . It is time there- fore to tell him , by the authority of Shakspeare , that he affumes ...
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... such fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agincourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
... such fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agincourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
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... Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakspeare , and fuch cenfures are fuitable to the minute and flender criticism of Voltaire : Non ufque adeo permiscuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , fi ...
... Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakspeare , and fuch cenfures are fuitable to the minute and flender criticism of Voltaire : Non ufque adeo permiscuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , fi ...
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... such remarks on life or axioms of morality as float in conversation , and are tranfinitted through the world in proverbial fentences . I have found it remarked , that , in this important fen- tence , Go before , I'll follow , we read a ...
... such remarks on life or axioms of morality as float in conversation , and are tranfinitted through the world in proverbial fentences . I have found it remarked , that , in this important fen- tence , Go before , I'll follow , we read a ...
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... Such verfe we make when we are writing profe ; we make such verse in common conversation . I know not whether this praife is rigorously just . The diffyllable termination , which the critick rightly appro- priates to the drama , is to ...
... Such verfe we make when we are writing profe ; we make such verse in common conversation . I know not whether this praife is rigorously just . The diffyllable termination , which the critick rightly appro- priates to the drama , is to ...
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Seite 43 - Hence, bashful cunning; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.
Seite 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Seite xlii - 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 64 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Seite 64 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Seite 10 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Seite xxxiv - ... state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is...
Seite xxx - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Seite 26 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Seite lxx - ... which all would be indifferent in its original state may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it. A commentator has indeed great temptations to supply by turbulence what he wants of dignity, to beat his little gold to a spacious surface, to work that to foam which no art or diligence can exalt to spirit.