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... Plays of Shakespeare An Account of the Harleian Library 73 • 123 132 · 195 • 225 411 * Preface to the Catalogue of the Harleian Library An Essay on the Origin and Importance of Small Tracts and Fugitive Pieces , written for the Intro ...
... Plays of Shakespeare An Account of the Harleian Library 73 • 123 132 · 195 • 225 411 * Preface to the Catalogue of the Harleian Library An Essay on the Origin and Importance of Small Tracts and Fugitive Pieces , written for the Intro ...
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... played , I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed . If the lexicons of ancient tongues , now immutably fixed , and comprized in a few volumes , be yet , after the ` toil of successive ages ...
... played , I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed . If the lexicons of ancient tongues , now immutably fixed , and comprized in a few volumes , be yet , after the ` toil of successive ages ...
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... play was written will prove that Shake- speare was in no danger of such censures , since he only turned the system that was then universally ad- mitted to his advantage , and was far from over- burthening the credulity of his audience ...
... play was written will prove that Shake- speare was in no danger of such censures , since he only turned the system that was then universally ad- mitted to his advantage , and was far from over- burthening the credulity of his audience ...
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... play , especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment , however they may now be ridiculed , were both by himself and his audience ...
... play , especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment , however they may now be ridiculed , were both by himself and his audience ...
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... play he terms the general dissolution of nature the crack of doom . There are among Mr. Theobald's alterations others which I do not approve , though I do not al- ways censure them ; for some of his amendments are so excellent , that ...
... play he terms the general dissolution of nature the crack of doom . There are among Mr. Theobald's alterations others which I do not approve , though I do not al- ways censure them ; for some of his amendments are so excellent , that ...
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Página 140 - Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense, either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind, exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination...
Página 67 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 136 - ... find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 88 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Página 66 - ... be perfect, since while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand...
Página 149 - He no sooner begins to move, than \ he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they 1 are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by ! sudden frigidity. - - , A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures : it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 139 - 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 87 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Página 37 - I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Página 169 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.