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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... writer.1 But Pope's He defence was of what he himself considered a fault . argues that Shakespeare's mission was to write to the people , and that he did what the people wanted , under- stood and rejoiced in . Dr. Johnson , in his ...
... writer.1 But Pope's He defence was of what he himself considered a fault . argues that Shakespeare's mission was to write to the people , and that he did what the people wanted , under- stood and rejoiced in . Dr. Johnson , in his ...
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... writer saying that an " odd humour of finding fault hath long prevailed among critics , as if nothing were worth remarking that did not at the same time deserve to be reproved . ' " " The chief value of Warburton's Preface is his state ...
... writer saying that an " odd humour of finding fault hath long prevailed among critics , as if nothing were worth remarking that did not at the same time deserve to be reproved . ' " " The chief value of Warburton's Preface is his state ...
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... writer of repute . His chief works were , " The Ambitious Stepmother , " " Tamer- lane , " " The Famous Penitent " ( famous as having among its dramatis persona the original " gallant gay Lothario " ) , " Ulysses , " " The Royal Convert ...
... writer of repute . His chief works were , " The Ambitious Stepmother , " " Tamer- lane , " " The Famous Penitent " ( famous as having among its dramatis persona the original " gallant gay Lothario " ) , " Ulysses , " " The Royal Convert ...
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... writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst those of the other players , before some This alleged ballad is very doubtful . But an allusion to Sir Thos . Lucy is evident in the coat of arms assigned to ...
... writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst those of the other players , before some This alleged ballad is very doubtful . But an allusion to Sir Thos . Lucy is evident in the coat of arms assigned to ...
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... writer . But of the two last of these plays I shall have occasion to take notice , among the tragedies of Mr. Shakespeare . 19 1o Lord Falkland , Lord C. J. Vaughan and Mr. Selden . - Rowe's note . Форм et the If one undertook to ...
... writer . But of the two last of these plays I shall have occasion to take notice , among the tragedies of Mr. Shakespeare . 19 1o Lord Falkland , Lord C. J. Vaughan and Mr. Selden . - Rowe's note . Форм et the If one undertook to ...
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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.