Historical and critical matter The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorJ. Nichols, 1811 |
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... reason than the desire of pleasure , and are therefore praised only as pleasure is ob- " Est vetus atque probus , centum qui perficit annos . " Hor . STEEVENS . tained ; yet , thus unassisted by interest or passion 2 DR . JOHNSON'S ...
... reason than the desire of pleasure , and are therefore praised only as pleasure is ob- " Est vetus atque probus , centum qui perficit annos . " Hor . STEEVENS . tained ; yet , thus unassisted by interest or passion 2 DR . JOHNSON'S ...
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... , and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the atten- tion , to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures . But the admirers of this great poet have most reason DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 11.
... , and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the atten- tion , to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures . But the admirers of this great poet have most reason DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 11.
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... reason , propriety , and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world , and was content to lose it . It will be thought strange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet ...
... reason , propriety , and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world , and was content to lose it . It will be thought strange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet ...
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... reason , or of truth , and from the heights of em- pyrean poetry , may despise the circumscriptions of terres- trial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be ...
... reason , or of truth , and from the heights of em- pyrean poetry , may despise the circumscriptions of terres- trial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be ...
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... reasons than I have yet been able to find . The result of my inquiries , in which it would be ludicrous to boast of im- partiality , is , that the unities of time and place are not essen- tial to a just drama ; that though they may ...
... reasons than I have yet been able to find . The result of my inquiries , in which it would be ludicrous to boast of im- partiality , is , that the unities of time and place are not essen- tial to a just drama ; that though they may ...
Términos y frases comunes
acted actors ancient appears Ariel Ben Jonson Blackfriars Caius Caliban called comedy copies daughter doth drama dramatick Drury Lane Duke edition Enter Exeunt exhibited Exit Falstaff father Ford gentlemen GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give hast hath hear heart heaven Herne the hunter honour Host JOHNSON Julia King Henry King Henry VI lady Laun learning letter lord madam MALONE Marry master Brook master doctor means Milan Mira mistress Ford monster musick Naples night passage performed Pist play players poet pray Prospero Proteus publick Queen Quick racter scenes servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shal Silvia Sir Hugh sir John Slen Slender speak Speed spirit stage STEEVENS Stephano Stratford suppose Susanna Hall Sycorax tell theatre thee there's Thurio tion Trin Trinculo Valentine William D'Avenant Windsor woman word writer
Pasajes populares
Página 37 - 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 64 - 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 88 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 172 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.
Página 142 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Página 6 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Página 7 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Página 12 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Página 3 - Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would probably be such as he has assigned; and it may be said that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed.
Página 3 - His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of critics, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal.