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Página xxxvi
... eye on it , and found something so well in it , as to engage him first to read it through , and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the public . ' That this kind office was in perfect unison with the general character ...
... eye on it , and found something so well in it , as to engage him first to read it through , and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the public . ' That this kind office was in perfect unison with the general character ...
Página xlix
... badly drawn and executed , that it cannot be considered a good like- ness . Not so the monumental bust in Stratford church ; for this appeals to our eyes and under- standing with all the force of truth , and indeed LIFE OF SHAKSPEARE .
... badly drawn and executed , that it cannot be considered a good like- ness . Not so the monumental bust in Stratford church ; for this appeals to our eyes and under- standing with all the force of truth , and indeed LIFE OF SHAKSPEARE .
Página lvii
... eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ...
... eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ...
Página lxxix
... eye to the ear ; but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labors were ex- hibited had more skill in pomps or processions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted some visible and ...
... eye to the ear ; but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labors were ex- hibited had more skill in pomps or processions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted some visible and ...
Página lxxx
... eye with awful pomp , and gratifying the mind with end- less diversity . Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities , minutely finished , wrought into shape , and polished into brightness : Shakspeare opens a mine which contains ...
... eye with awful pomp , and gratifying the mind with end- less diversity . Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities , minutely finished , wrought into shape , and polished into brightness : Shakspeare opens a mine which contains ...
Términos y frases comunes
Ariel banish'd Ben Jonson boatswain Caliban canst comedy conjecture criticism daughter didst diligence dost doth drama duke of Milan Eglamour Exeunt Exit eyes father faults gentle gentlemen GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give Gonzalo grace hath hear heart heaven Henry VI honor island Item Jonson Julia king knowlege labor lady ladyship language Launce learning letter living look lord Lucetta madam Silvia Malone Marry master mind Miranda mistress monster Naples nature never passion Phaëton play poet Pr'ythee praise pray Prospero SCENE servant SHAK Shakspeare Shakspeare's sir Proteus sir Thurio sometimes speak Speed spirit Stephano strange Stratford Stratford-on-Avon Susanna Hall sweet Sycorax tell thee thine thing thou art thou hast Thou shalt thought thyself tragedy Trin Trinculo Tunis unto Valentine Verona words writers
Pasajes populares
Página 73 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 21 - would it had been done ! Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave ! Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but would'st gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known...
Página li - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 60 - 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 lx - 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 66 - O, it is monstrous ! monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Página 110 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Página xvii - He had by a misfortune, common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Página xlvi - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Página 81 - 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...