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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... observed there . On the contrary , let us only look a little on the conduct of Shakfpere . Hamlet is reprefented with the fame piety towards his father , and refolution to revenge his death , as Oreftes ; he has the fame abhorrence for ...
... observed there . On the contrary , let us only look a little on the conduct of Shakfpere . Hamlet is reprefented with the fame piety towards his father , and refolution to revenge his death , as Oreftes ; he has the fame abhorrence for ...
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... observed of the ancient schools of declamation , that the more dili- gently they were frequented , the more was the student difqualified for the world , because he found nothing there which he fhould ever meet in any other place . The ...
... observed of the ancient schools of declamation , that the more dili- gently they were frequented , the more was the student difqualified for the world , because he found nothing there which he fhould ever meet in any other place . The ...
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... affecting , for the fake of those which are more eafy . It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected . When he found him- felf near the end of his work , and in 36 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... affecting , for the fake of those which are more eafy . It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected . When he found him- felf near the end of his work , and in 36 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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... observed : nor , if fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his firft act paffed at Venice , and his next at Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the compre- henfive genius of ...
... observed : nor , if fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his firft act paffed at Venice , and his next at Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the compre- henfive genius of ...
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... observation im-- pregnated by genius . Cato affords a fplendid exhibition of artificial and fictitious manners , and delivers juft and noble sentiments , in diction eafy , elevated , and harmoni- ous ; but its hopes and fears ...
... observation im-- pregnated by genius . Cato affords a fplendid exhibition of artificial and fictitious manners , and delivers juft and noble sentiments , in diction eafy , elevated , and harmoni- ous ; but its hopes and fears ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Afide againſt Angelo Anne ANTIPHOLIS becauſe beft brother Caius Caliban Clau Claudio Clown defire doft thou doth Dromio Duke Efcal elfe Enter Exeunt Exit fafe faid falfe fame feems fent feven fhall fhew fhould fifter fince firft firſt fome fometimes Ford foul fpeak fpirit friar ftand ftill ftrange fuch fuppofe fure fweet gentleman hath hear heaven Herne the hunter himſelf Hoft honour houfe houſe huſband Ifab juftice Laun lofe lord Lucio mafter Brook Marry miftrefs Mira miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Naples pleaſe pleaſure Pompey pray prefent prifon Protheus Prov purpoſe Quic reafon reft ſay Shakeſpeare Shal ſhall ſhe Silvia Slen ſpeak Speed Sycorax tell thee thefe there's theſe thofe thoſe thou art thouſand Thurio Trin uſe Valentine whofe wife yourſelf
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.