The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel Johnson's Preface and Notes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...Munroe & Frances, 1802 |
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... firft effay of his poetry , be loft , yet it is faid to have been fo very bitter , that it redoubled the profecution against him to that degree , that he was obliged to leave his bufinefs and family in Warwickshire , for fome time , and ...
... firft effay of his poetry , be loft , yet it is faid to have been fo very bitter , that it redoubled the profecution against him to that degree , that he was obliged to leave his bufinefs and family in Warwickshire , for fome time , and ...
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... firft play he wrote . * It would be , without doubt , a pleasure to any man , curious in things of this kind , to fee and know what was the first essay of a fancy like Shakspere's . Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like ...
... firft play he wrote . * It would be , without doubt , a pleasure to any man , curious in things of this kind , to fee and know what was the first essay of a fancy like Shakspere's . Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like ...
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... firft to read it through , and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonfon and his writings to the publick . Jonfon was certainly a very good fcholar , and in that had the advantage of Shakfpere ; though at the fame time , I believe , it must be ...
... firft to read it through , and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonfon and his writings to the publick . Jonfon was certainly a very good fcholar , and in that had the advantage of Shakfpere ; though at the fame time , I believe , it must be ...
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... firft , Romans , who wrote trage- dy upon the Greek models , ( or indeed tranflated them ) in his epiftle to Auguftus . -Natura fublimis & acer , Nam fpirat tragicum & feliciter audet , Sed turpem putat in chartis metuitque , lituram ...
... firft , Romans , who wrote trage- dy upon the Greek models , ( or indeed tranflated them ) in his epiftle to Auguftus . -Natura fublimis & acer , Nam fpirat tragicum & feliciter audet , Sed turpem putat in chartis metuitque , lituram ...
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... firft is , what Portia fays in praise of mercy , and the other on the power of mufick . The melancholy of Jaques , in As you like it , is as fingular and odd as it is diverting . And if , what Horace fays , Difficile eft proprie ...
... firft is , what Portia fays in praise of mercy , and the other on the power of mufick . The melancholy of Jaques , in As you like it , is as fingular and odd as it is diverting . And if , what Horace fays , Difficile eft proprie ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 37 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's Spring, but sorrow's Fall.
Página 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 31 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 13 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Página 27 - Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice.
Página 17 - And then the whining schoolboy, 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
Página 55 - 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 waked their sleepers; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art...
Página 36 - 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 40 - Medea could, in so short a time, have transported him; he knows with certainty that he has not changed his place, and he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis.
Página 50 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.