Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the Eighteenth CenturyBeverley Ellison Warner Dodd, Mead, 1906 - 268 páginas |
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... lived very happily with her , so this remarkable sentence must be taken as the result of general observation rather than a personal experience . I confess it is to me the most astounding adjudication in English letters . Love with one ...
... lived very happily with her , so this remarkable sentence must be taken as the result of general observation rather than a personal experience . I confess it is to me the most astounding adjudication in English letters . Love with one ...
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... lived to be married ; Judith , the elder , 13 to one Mr. Thomas Quiney , by whom she had three sons , who all died with- out children ; and Susanna , who was his favourite , to Dr. John Hall , a physician of good reputation in that ...
... lived to be married ; Judith , the elder , 13 to one Mr. Thomas Quiney , by whom she had three sons , who all died with- out children ; and Susanna , who was his favourite , to Dr. John Hall , a physician of good reputation in that ...
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... lived in and if we find it in the pulpits , made use of as an ornament to the sermons of some of the gravest divines of those times , perhaps it may not be thought too light for the stage . But certainly the greatness of this author's ...
... lived in and if we find it in the pulpits , made use of as an ornament to the sermons of some of the gravest divines of those times , perhaps it may not be thought too light for the stage . But certainly the greatness of this author's ...
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... lived under a kind of mere light of nature , and had never been made acquainted with the regularity of those written precepts , so it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to consider him as a man that lived in ...
... lived under a kind of mere light of nature , and had never been made acquainted with the regularity of those written precepts , so it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to consider him as a man that lived in ...
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... lived on amica- ble terms , and in offices of society with each other . It is an acknowledged fact that Ben Jonson was in- troduced upon the stage , and his first work encour- aged , by Shakespeare ; and after his death , that author ...
... lived on amica- ble terms , and in offices of society with each other . It is an acknowledged fact that Ben Jonson was in- troduced upon the stage , and his first work encour- aged , by Shakespeare ; and after his death , that author ...
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Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the ... Beverley Ellison Warner Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the ... Beverley Ellison Warner Vista de fragmentos - 1906 |
Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the ... Beverley Ellison Warner Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
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Página 16 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 266 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Página 252 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Página 114 - 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.
Página 124 - This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 20 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 126 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 123 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
Página 20 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
Página 4 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.