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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Beverley Ellison Warner. 5530 W28 COPYRIGHT , 1906 , BY DODD , MEAD & COMPANY Published March , 1906 Το ROBERT SHARP , Ph.D. STUDENT AND SCHOLAR Professor of 822.8.
Beverley Ellison Warner. 5530 W28 COPYRIGHT , 1906 , BY DODD , MEAD & COMPANY Published March , 1906 Το ROBERT SHARP , Ph.D. STUDENT AND SCHOLAR Professor of 822.8.
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... publish , the least things tending to the illustration of our author . " · Lewis Theobald followed Pope ( 1733 ) and laid him- self open to that irritable poet's caustic reference , by remarking that he , Pope , seldom corrected the ...
... publish , the least things tending to the illustration of our author . " · Lewis Theobald followed Pope ( 1733 ) and laid him- self open to that irritable poet's caustic reference , by remarking that he , Pope , seldom corrected the ...
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... published by the University of Oxford ( 1744 ) , with a short but stately preface , chiefly notable rather than valuable for his contention that a great deal of what he called " low stuff , " ribaldry , coarse jests , etc. , were ...
... published by the University of Oxford ( 1744 ) , with a short but stately preface , chiefly notable rather than valuable for his contention that a great deal of what he called " low stuff , " ribaldry , coarse jests , etc. , were ...
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... published during Shakespeare's life - time , and while some of them are doubtless the " stolen and surreptitious copies " referred to by Heminge and Condell in their " Address to the Great Variety of Readers , " some of them bear ...
... published during Shakespeare's life - time , and while some of them are doubtless the " stolen and surreptitious copies " referred to by Heminge and Condell in their " Address to the Great Variety of Readers , " some of them bear ...
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... published , there was no small circle of his admirers remaining as a nucleus , and from that day there has never been a ques- tion as to William Shakespeare's right of eminent domain in English letters . Capell's Introduction acquired ...
... published , there was no small circle of his admirers remaining as a nucleus , and from that day there has never been a ques- tion as to William Shakespeare's right of eminent domain in English letters . Capell's Introduction acquired ...
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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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acquaintance actors admirable ancient appear beauties Ben Jonson better Cæsar censure character collation comedy Comedy of Errors common conjecture corrupt criticism death drama dramatick edition editor EDMUND MALONE eighteenth century emendations English errors excellence fable fancy faults folio genius George Steevens Hamlet hath HENRIE CONDELL honour ignorance imitation ISAAC REED JOHN HEMINGE Jonson judgment Julius Cæsar King Henry knowledge labour language learning Lewis Theobald Love's Labour's Lost Malone manner Merry Wives modern nature never NICHOLAS ROWE notes obscure observed omitted opinion original passages passion perhaps pieces players plays pleasure poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise preface printed publication published quarto reader reason Rowe Rowe's scenes seems Shakespeare stage Steevens Stratford supposed taste Theobald thing thought tion Titus Andronicus tragedy Troilus and Cressida true truth volumes Warburton words writer written
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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.