An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, which from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare: Containing a Careful Examination of the Evidence on which They Claim to be ReceivedR. Triphook, 1824 - 143 стор. |
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... Steevens , Esq . which brought before the Public the first detection of an impudent and very unskilful forgery . Upon that occasion , the great Commentator expressed a very agreeable opinion of my little work , by saying with his ...
... Steevens , Esq . which brought before the Public the first detection of an impudent and very unskilful forgery . Upon that occasion , the great Commentator expressed a very agreeable opinion of my little work , by saying with his ...
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... Steevens subse- quently asserted , on the part of the engraver - we may rest assured . that the engraving was scrupulously faithful to an indifferent original ; I mean indifferent only as to its style of art ; for as to its resemblance ...
... Steevens subse- quently asserted , on the part of the engraver - we may rest assured . that the engraving was scrupulously faithful to an indifferent original ; I mean indifferent only as to its style of art ; for as to its resemblance ...
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... Steevens , that Ben Jonson might know little about the art ; care less about the resemblance ; and never having compared the engraving with the picture , have rested satisfied with the recollection that the original was a faithful ...
... Steevens , that Ben Jonson might know little about the art ; care less about the resemblance ; and never having compared the engraving with the picture , have rested satisfied with the recollection that the original was a faithful ...
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... of Stowe . That it should ever have been seriously questioned , might excite some surprise , were it not at the same time added , that the late George Steevens , Esq . was the person by whom it was suspected to be , but 29.
... of Stowe . That it should ever have been seriously questioned , might excite some surprise , were it not at the same time added , that the late George Steevens , Esq . was the person by whom it was suspected to be , but 29.
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... Steevens must have chuckled with triumph , when he found a KECK among them . But this is puny pleasantry at last , collecting the artillery of his annoyance together , he devotes the whole tribe , like a true Anthropophaginian , to ...
... Steevens must have chuckled with triumph , when he found a KECK among them . But this is puny pleasantry at last , collecting the artillery of his annoyance together , he devotes the whole tribe , like a true Anthropophaginian , to ...
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Сторінка 48 - Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire ? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu...
Сторінка 11 - TO THE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Сторінка 47 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Сторінка 137 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Сторінка 89 - I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of •William. VOL. 9 — 99 337 the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery.
Сторінка 31 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight ; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.
Сторінка 113 - Make kings his subjects; by exchanging verse Enlive their pale trunks, that the present age Joys in their joy, and trembles at their rage : Yet so to temper passion, that our ears Take pleasure in their pain, and eyes in tears Both weep and smile...
Сторінка 56 - ... but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods : such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Сторінка 45 - lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno". ac ne forte putes me, quae facere ipse recusem, cum recte tractent alii, laudare maligne : 210 ille per extentum funem mihi posse videtur ire poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit, irritat, mulcet, falsis terroribus implet, ut magus, et modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis.
Сторінка 55 - The fire having continued all this night (if I may call that night which was light as day for ten miles round about, after a dreadful manner) when conspiring with a fierce...