Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Volumen2author, 1817 Intended as a sequel to the Literary anecdotes. |
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Página 172
... speech , and his manly plea- santry about fools , for which I reverence him , may be deemed such ) , they are such as all the world has long been acquainted with . They are , indeed , so notorious , that , if it had been my intention to ...
... speech , and his manly plea- santry about fools , for which I reverence him , may be deemed such ) , they are such as all the world has long been acquainted with . They are , indeed , so notorious , that , if it had been my intention to ...
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... speech to the Judge , he calls them five ; in his interpretation he says the change shall be after the reign of five Kings ; and yet referring , in con- clusion , to a text in the Second Book of Kings , we are brought back again to the ...
... speech to the Judge , he calls them five ; in his interpretation he says the change shall be after the reign of five Kings ; and yet referring , in con- clusion , to a text in the Second Book of Kings , we are brought back again to the ...
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... speeches copied from the Life of Coriolanus in Plutarch ; and yet that he should have no suspicion of this passage : for , I dare answer , Calvus was as new a person to him , as he is yet to me . The second Edition in fo- lio ( anno ...
... speeches copied from the Life of Coriolanus in Plutarch ; and yet that he should have no suspicion of this passage : for , I dare answer , Calvus was as new a person to him , as he is yet to me . The second Edition in fo- lio ( anno ...
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... speech of this Play , where Timon's steward is talking of his Master's carelessness , p . 26 : Takes no accompt How things go from him , & c . So in Macbeth , p . 532 : Your Servants ever , Have theirs , themselves , and what is theirs ...
... speech of this Play , where Timon's steward is talking of his Master's carelessness , p . 26 : Takes no accompt How things go from him , & c . So in Macbeth , p . 532 : Your Servants ever , Have theirs , themselves , and what is theirs ...
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... speech should begin here . P. 126. 1. 26. Goblin , lead them up and down , ] for Goblin'll lead them up and down . P.131.1 . Dian's bud , or Cupid's flower て 21,22 . Hath such force and blessed power . I read , Dian's bud o'er Cupid's ...
... speech should begin here . P. 126. 1. 26. Goblin , lead them up and down , ] for Goblin'll lead them up and down . P.131.1 . Dian's bud , or Cupid's flower て 21,22 . Hath such force and blessed power . I read , Dian's bud o'er Cupid's ...
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Página 198 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 382 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? — Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ? Glo. Ay, sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur ? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority : a dog's obeyed in office.
Página 483 - All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him...
Página 195 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página 652 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 73 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Página 348 - It adds a precious seeing to the eye; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd> Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Página 404 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal.
Página 834 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death : Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 717 - What City Swans once sung within the walls; Much she revolves their arts, their ancient praise, And sure succession down from Heywood's days.