The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Dr. Johnson's preface. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaH:O. Bohn, 1857 |
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... speaking of these plays , says . The last three are not only unquestionably Shakspeare's , but , in my opinion , they deserve to be classed among his best and maturest works . Steevens admits at least in some degree , that they are Shak ...
... speaking of these plays , says . The last three are not only unquestionably Shakspeare's , but , in my opinion , they deserve to be classed among his best and maturest works . Steevens admits at least in some degree , that they are Shak ...
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... speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an in- dividual ; in those ...
... speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an in- dividual ; in those ...
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... speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion : even where the agency is supernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent ...
... speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion : even where the agency is supernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent ...
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... speak only to be understood , without ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modish innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of speech , in hope of finding or making better : those who wish for ...
... speak only to be understood , without ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modish innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of speech , in hope of finding or making better : those who wish for ...
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... speak thus slightly of dramatic rules , I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me before such authorities I am afraid to stand ; not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided ...
... speak thus slightly of dramatic rules , I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me before such authorities I am afraid to stand ; not that I think the present question one of those that are to be decided ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 44 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 170 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair, — For beauty lives with kindness ? Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling : To her let us garlands bring.
Página 80 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion* as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art ? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick. Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer a'Ction is In virtue than in vengeance.
Página cix - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our Wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 81 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Página 4 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Página 5 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O ! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
Página lxi - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture and part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow; to distress them as nothing human ever was distressed; to deliver them as nothing human ever was delivered, is the business of a modern dramatist. For this, probability is...
Página 110 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Página lxxiii - ... arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he, that imagines this, may imagine more. He, that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium.