The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index, Volumen1Ginn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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... sure , that far more real good will come , even to the mind , by foolishly enjoying Shakespeare than by learnedly parsing him . So that here I am minded to apply the saying of Wordsworth , that " he is oft the wisest man who is not wise ...
... sure , that far more real good will come , even to the mind , by foolishly enjoying Shakespeare than by learnedly parsing him . So that here I am minded to apply the saying of Wordsworth , that " he is oft the wisest man who is not wise ...
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... sure , here , as elsewhere , an editor's art , or want of art , can easily find or make ever so many difficulties , in order to magnify itself and its office , by meeting them , or by seeming to meet them . And in fact it has now become ...
... sure , here , as elsewhere , an editor's art , or want of art , can easily find or make ever so many difficulties , in order to magnify itself and its office , by meeting them , or by seeming to meet them . And in fact it has now become ...
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... sure , the process has set in , and is already well advanced , of smothering his proper light beneath com- mentatorial surplusage and rubbish . So strong is the conceit of studying all things scientifi- cally , that we must , forsooth ...
... sure , the process has set in , and is already well advanced , of smothering his proper light beneath com- mentatorial surplusage and rubbish . So strong is the conceit of studying all things scientifi- cally , that we must , forsooth ...
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... sure , of those that may be called apt and good , the larger portion had been anticipated by mod- ern editors , and so had passed into the current text . Still there are enough of original or unanticipated corrections to render the ...
... sure , of those that may be called apt and good , the larger portion had been anticipated by mod- ern editors , and so had passed into the current text . Still there are enough of original or unanticipated corrections to render the ...
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... sure to disgust the common sense of sober , candid , circumspective , cool - judging minds . It is said that the old . text must not be changed save in cases of " absolute neces- sity " ; and this dictum is so construed , in theory at ...
... sure to disgust the common sense of sober , candid , circumspective , cool - judging minds . It is said that the old . text must not be changed save in cases of " absolute neces- sity " ; and this dictum is so construed , in theory at ...
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Página 48 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Página 34 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 49 - 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 37 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 30 - The warrant I have of your Honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours, being part in all I have devoted yours.
Página 37 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Página 68 - The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Página 69 - And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part.
Página 31 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Página 73 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.