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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... never having read them . Whether his ignorance of the ancients were a disadvantage to him or not , may admit of a difpute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it is not improbable , but that the regu ...
... never having read them . Whether his ignorance of the ancients were a disadvantage to him or not , may admit of a difpute : for though the knowledge of them might have made him more correct , yet it is not improbable , but that the regu ...
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... never meet with any further account of him this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet . I fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the firft play he wrote ...
... never meet with any further account of him this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet . I fhould have been much more pleased , to have learned from certain authority , which was the firft play he wrote ...
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... never blotted cur " line . My anfwer hath been , Would he had i 1991 " thoufand ! which they thought a malevolent " I had not told pofterity this , but for their igne " rance , who chose that circumstance to corriere " their friend by ...
... never blotted cur " line . My anfwer hath been , Would he had i 1991 " thoufand ! which they thought a malevolent " I had not told pofterity this , but for their igne " rance , who chose that circumstance to corriere " their friend by ...
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... never feen , and know nothing of . He likewife Venus and Adonis , and Tarquin and Lu- . ore , in ftanzas , which have been printed in a late Jection of poems . As to the character given of em by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal in it ...
... never feen , and know nothing of . He likewife Venus and Adonis , and Tarquin and Lu- . ore , in ftanzas , which have been printed in a late Jection of poems . As to the character given of em by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal in it ...
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... never told her love ; But let concealment , like a worm i ' th ' bud , Feed on her damask cheek : fhe pin'd in thought ; And , with a green and yellow melancholy , She fat like Patience on a monument , Smiling at Grief . Twelfth Night ...
... never told her love ; But let concealment , like a worm i ' th ' bud , Feed on her damask cheek : fhe pin'd in thought ; And , with a green and yellow melancholy , She fat like Patience on a monument , Smiling at Grief . Twelfth Night ...
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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.