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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... perhaps . are more willing to honour paft than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through , the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticisin is to find ...
... perhaps . are more willing to honour paft than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through , the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticisin is to find ...
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... perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every fpeech may be affigned to the proper fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
... perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every fpeech may be affigned to the proper fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
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... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danifh ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions ...
... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danifh ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions ...
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... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to ...
... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to ...
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... perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the ftage ; but the general fyftem makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
... perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the ftage ; but the general fyftem makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
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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...