The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any other merit . I fhall fhew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently difcuffed than a dead ...
... fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any other merit . I fhall fhew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently difcuffed than a dead ...
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... fufficient ground of deter- mination ; but as no imitations of French or Italian authors have been discovered , though the Italian , poetry was then high in efteem , I am inclined to be- lieve , that he read little more than English ...
... fufficient ground of deter- mination ; but as no imitations of French or Italian authors have been discovered , though the Italian , poetry was then high in efteem , I am inclined to be- lieve , that he read little more than English ...
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... fufficient for a mind so capable of appropriating and improving it . But the greater part of his excellence was the pro- duct of his own genius . He found the English stage in a ftate of the utmost rudeness ; no effays either in tragedy ...
... fufficient for a mind so capable of appropriating and improving it . But the greater part of his excellence was the pro- duct of his own genius . He found the English stage in a ftate of the utmost rudeness ; no effays either in tragedy ...
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... fufficient for present praise , and those who find themfelves exalted into fame , are willing to credit their encomiafts , and to spare the labour of contend- ing with themfelves . It does not appear , that Shakespeare thought his works ...
... fufficient for present praise , and those who find themfelves exalted into fame , are willing to credit their encomiafts , and to spare the labour of contend- ing with themfelves . It does not appear , that Shakespeare thought his works ...
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... fufficient to confer celebrity on those who could exalt themfelves into antagonists , and his notes have raised a clamour too loud to be diftinct . His chief affailants are the au- thors of The canons of criticifm , and of The revifal ...
... fufficient to confer celebrity on those who could exalt themfelves into antagonists , and his notes have raised a clamour too loud to be diftinct . His chief affailants are the au- thors of The canons of criticifm , and of The revifal ...
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Página 218 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the muses still were in their prime When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears ; or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Página 65 - 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.
Página 100 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And '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...
Página 16 - 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.
Página 294 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Página 4 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 6 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Página 40 - ... profit. When his plays had been acted, his hope was at an end ; he solicited no addition of honour from the reader.
Página 64 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Página 216 - The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room...