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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... true , for fome time at a free school ; where it is probable , he ac- quired what Latin he was master of : but the nar- rowness of his circumstances , and the want of his affistance at home , forced his father to withdraw him from ...
... true , for fome time at a free school ; where it is probable , he ac- quired what Latin he was master of : but the nar- rowness of his circumstances , and the want of his affistance at home , forced his father to withdraw him from ...
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... true tafte of merit , and could diftinguish men , had gen- erally a juft value and esteem for him . His exceed- ing candour and good - nature must certainly have in- clined all the gentler part of the world to love : him , as the power ...
... true tafte of merit , and could diftinguish men , had gen- erally a juft value and esteem for him . His exceed- ing candour and good - nature must certainly have in- clined all the gentler part of the world to love : him , as the power ...
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... tales were feldom invented , but rather taken either from true hiftory , or novels and romances : and he commonly made use of them in that order , with thofe incidents , and that extent 20 Some Account of Shakfpere's.
... tales were feldom invented , but rather taken either from true hiftory , or novels and romances : and he commonly made use of them in that order , with thofe incidents , and that extent 20 Some Account of Shakfpere's.
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... true even by those who in daily experience feel it to be falfe . The interchanges of mingled scenes feldom fail to produce the intended viciffitudes of paffion . Fiction cannot move fo much , but that the attention may be . cafily ...
... true even by those who in daily experience feel it to be falfe . The interchanges of mingled scenes feldom fail to produce the intended viciffitudes of paffion . Fiction cannot move fo much , but that the attention may be . cafily ...
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... true paffion are the colours of nature ; they pervade the whole mafs , and can only perish with the body that exhibits them . The accidental compofitions of heterogeneous modes are dif folved by the chance which combined them ; but the ...
... true paffion are the colours of nature ; they pervade the whole mafs , and can only perish with the body that exhibits them . The accidental compofitions of heterogeneous modes are dif folved by the chance which combined them ; but the ...
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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.