The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: The author's life. Dr. Johnson's preface. Some account of the learning of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorCollins & Hannay, 1823 |
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... supposed to have been a time of stateliness , formality , and reserve , yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not very elegant . There must , however , have been always some modes of gayety preferable to others , and a ...
... supposed to have been a time of stateliness , formality , and reserve , yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not very elegant . There must , however , have been always some modes of gayety preferable to others , and a ...
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... supposed necessity of making the drama credible . The critics hold it impossible , that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the theatre ...
... supposed necessity of making the drama credible . The critics hold it impossible , that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the theatre ...
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... supposed to intervene ? Time is , of all modes of existence , most obsequious to the ima- gination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a pas- sage of hours . In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions , and ...
... supposed to intervene ? Time is , of all modes of existence , most obsequious to the ima- gination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a pas- sage of hours . In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions , and ...
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... supposed capable to give us shade , or the fountains coolness ; but we consider , how we should be pleased with such fountains playing beside us , and such woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth ...
... supposed capable to give us shade , or the fountains coolness ; but we consider , how we should be pleased with such fountains playing beside us , and such woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth ...
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... supposed to be copied from Chaucer's Gamelyn , was a little pamphlet of those times ; and old Mr. Cibber remembered the tale of Hamlet in plain Eng- lish prose , which the critics have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English ...
... supposed to be copied from Chaucer's Gamelyn , was a little pamphlet of those times ; and old Mr. Cibber remembered the tale of Hamlet in plain Eng- lish prose , which the critics have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English ...
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ancient ARIEL Ben Jonson Caius Caliban called character comedy criticism daughter devil dost doth Duke duke of Milan Enter Exeunt Exit fairies Falstaff father fault gentlemen GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give hath hear heart heaven Herne the hunter Holinshed honour Host HUGH EVANS humour JOHNSON Julia king Laun learning letter look lord Macbeth madam Marry master Brook master doctor master Slender Milan mind Mira mistress Anne mistress Ford monster never numbers Pist Plautus play Plutarch poet pray Prospero Proteus Quic SCENE servant Shakespeare Shal shew Silvia Sir HUGH sir John Sir John Falstaff sir Proteus Slen speak Speed spirit STEEV STEEVENS Stephano supposed sweet Sycorax tell thee there's thing thou art Thurio translation Trin Trinculo Valentine WARBURTON wife Windsor woman word writers
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Сторінка 65 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Сторінка 155 - 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.
Сторінка 176 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair Unless I be reliev'd by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
Сторінка 131 - em. Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me ; wouldst give me Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Сторінка 25 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual, in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Сторінка 225 - em. SONG. Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The heavens 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.
Сторінка 15 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Сторінка 168 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Сторінка 15 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well...
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