The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers, Volumen1 |
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... English publick was approaching to a period in which matters of higher moment were to engage attention , and in which his works were nearly buried in oblivion , and not for more than a century afterwards , ranked among the produc- tions ...
... English publick was approaching to a period in which matters of higher moment were to engage attention , and in which his works were nearly buried in oblivion , and not for more than a century afterwards , ranked among the produc- tions ...
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... English money , to be paid unto her in manner and form following ; that is to say , one hundred pounds in discharge of her mar- riage portion within one year after my decease , with Our poet's will appears to have been drawn up in ...
... English money , to be paid unto her in manner and form following ; that is to say , one hundred pounds in discharge of her mar- riage portion within one year after my decease , with Our poet's will appears to have been drawn up in ...
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... English poets , Shakspeare must be confessed to be the fairest and fullest subject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most conspicuous instances , both of beauties and faults of all sorts . But this far exceeds ...
... English poets , Shakspeare must be confessed to be the fairest and fullest subject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most conspicuous instances , both of beauties and faults of all sorts . But this far exceeds ...
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... English prose , which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they sup ...
... English prose , which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they sup ...
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... English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inaccessible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain . That his plays have some ...
... English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inaccessible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain . That his plays have some ...
Términos y frases comunes
acted actors ancient Anne appears Ariel Ben Jonson Caius Caliban called comedy daughter doth drama dramatick Drury Lane Duke edition Enter Exeunt exhibited Exit Falstaff father follow Ford gentlemen give hast hath heart heaven Herne the hunter honour Host HUGH EVANS JOHNSON Julia Julius Cæsar King Henry lady Laun learning Lincoln's Inn Fields lord madam Malone marry master Brook master doctor means Milan Mira mistress Ford monster musick Naples night performed Pist play players playhouses poet pray Prospero Proteus publick queen Quick scenes servant Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shal Silvia sir Hugh sir John Slen Slender speak Speed spirit stage STEEVENS Stratford suppose Susanna Hall sweet Sycorax tell theatre thee thing Thurio tion Trin Trinculo Valentine viii William D'Avenant Windsor woman word writer
Pasajes populares
Página 84 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And '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...
Página 91 - What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours : Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together?
Página 47 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 38 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Página 62 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Página 83 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Página 22 - 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.
Página 32 - 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 117 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 23 - Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.