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Página xxxii
The publick was gross and dark ; and to be able to read and write , was an
accomplishment ftill valued for its rarity , Nations , 7 Nations , like individuals ,
have their infancy . A 2 xxxii P R E F A C E. which he lived, and with his own
particular ...
The publick was gross and dark ; and to be able to read and write , was an
accomplishment ftill valued for its rarity , Nations , 7 Nations , like individuals ,
have their infancy . A 2 xxxii P R E F A C E. which he lived, and with his own
particular ...
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... but which his admirer has accumulated as a monument of honour . He has
scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence , but perhaps not one play , which
, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to
...
... but which his admirer has accumulated as a monument of honour . He has
scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence , but perhaps not one play , which
, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to
...
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P O PE's P R E FACE . I to us . T is not my design to enter into a Criticism upon
this Author ; tho ' to do it effectually and not superficially , would be the best
occasion that any just Writer could take , to form the judgment and taste of our
nation .
P O PE's P R E FACE . I to us . T is not my design to enter into a Criticism upon
this Author ; tho ' to do it effectually and not superficially , would be the best
occasion that any just Writer could take , to form the judgment and taste of our
nation .
Página lxxx
It may be added , that not only the common Audience had no notion of the rules
of writing , but few even of the better fort piqu'd themselves upon any great
degree of knowledge or nicety that way ; ' till Ben Johnson getting possession of
the ...
It may be added , that not only the common Audience had no notion of the rules
of writing , but few even of the better fort piqu'd themselves upon any great
degree of knowledge or nicety that way ; ' till Ben Johnson getting possession of
the ...
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If I may judge from all the distinguishing marks of his style , and his manner of
thinking and writing , I make no doubt to declare that those wretched plays ,
Pericles , Locrine , Sir Jobn Oldcojile , Yorkshire Tragedy , Lord Cromwell , The
Puritan ...
If I may judge from all the distinguishing marks of his style , and his manner of
thinking and writing , I make no doubt to declare that those wretched plays ,
Pericles , Locrine , Sir Jobn Oldcojile , Yorkshire Tragedy , Lord Cromwell , The
Puritan ...
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Página x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. 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 xxv - 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 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página xxii - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. 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 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Página 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Página xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Página lxxiii - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
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| Título | The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Volumen1 The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, William Shakespeare |
| Autor | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Publicado | 1768 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 24 Oct. 2007 |
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