The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volumen1R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... considered as acquiescing in their propriety . When , for instance , Mr. Ritson observes , that the reading of the quarto in Hamlet's celebrated soliloquy , " And enterprizes of great pitch and moment , " is better : I should not wish ...
... considered as acquiescing in their propriety . When , for instance , Mr. Ritson observes , that the reading of the quarto in Hamlet's celebrated soliloquy , " And enterprizes of great pitch and moment , " is better : I should not wish ...
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... considered those criticks as hav- ing in general unwarrantably sophisticated the poet's text . Mr. Steevens , on the contrary , not only has upheld throughout the superiority of the second folio , but has availed himself of every ...
... considered those criticks as hav- ing in general unwarrantably sophisticated the poet's text . Mr. Steevens , on the contrary , not only has upheld throughout the superiority of the second folio , but has availed himself of every ...
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... considered to be , from the best judgment he could form , their chronological order , that the reader might be thus enabled to trace the progress of the author's powers , from his first and im- perfect essays , to those more finished ...
... considered to be , from the best judgment he could form , their chronological order , that the reader might be thus enabled to trace the progress of the author's powers , from his first and im- perfect essays , to those more finished ...
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... considered it sufficient to head those notes in which the original text has been disturbed , with the reading which he wished to substitute , that the reader may have a full opportunity of fixing his own value upon those supposed ...
... considered it sufficient to head those notes in which the original text has been disturbed , with the reading which he wished to substitute , that the reader may have a full opportunity of fixing his own value upon those supposed ...
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... considered as improve- ments . In the glossarial index of former editions , the reader has merely been presented with a long list of words , and references to the passages where they occur , often with very different meanings ; and is ...
... considered as improve- ments . In the glossarial index of former editions , the reader has merely been presented with a long list of words , and references to the passages where they occur , often with very different meanings ; and is ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 236 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Página 476 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 62 - 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 449 - 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 fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Snfflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Página 484 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics 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 live-long monument. For whilst to th...
Página xlvi - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 459 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Página 473 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.
Página 64 - Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and 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.
Página 454 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress