The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....T. Bensley, 1800 |
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... scene travels over the greatest part of the Roman empire . But in recompence for his carelessness in this point , when he comes to another part of the drama , the manners of his cha- racters , in acting or Speaking what is proper for ...
... scene travels over the greatest part of the Roman empire . But in recompence for his carelessness in this point , when he comes to another part of the drama , the manners of his cha- racters , in acting or Speaking what is proper for ...
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... scene where the King is murdered , in the second act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly fpirit with which he writ ; and both fhew how powerful he was , in giving the ftrongest motions to our fouls that they are ...
... scene where the King is murdered , in the second act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly fpirit with which he writ ; and both fhew how powerful he was , in giving the ftrongest motions to our fouls that they are ...
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... scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and com- petition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished ; his works fupport no opi- nion with arguments , nor fupply any faction with ...
... scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and com- petition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished ; his works fupport no opi- nion with arguments , nor fupply any faction with ...
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... scenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occasion : even where the agency is fuper- natural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers ...
... scenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occasion : even where the agency is fuper- natural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers ...
Página xxxiii
... scenes , as it extends to all his works , deserves more confideration . Let the fact be first stated , and then examined . Shakspeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compofitions of ...
... scenes , as it extends to all his works , deserves more confideration . Let the fact be first stated , and then examined . Shakspeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compofitions of ...
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Página 43 - 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 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página xlii - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Página 64 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 64 - 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; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Página 10 - 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 xxxiv - ... state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is...
Página xxx - 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 26 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Página lxx - ... which all would be indifferent in its original state may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it. A commentator has indeed great temptations to supply by turbulence what he wants of dignity, to beat his little gold to a spacious surface, to work that to foam which no art or diligence can exalt to spirit.