The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens..H. Baldwin, 1793 |
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... fome arguments from fufpected imitations ; and yet offers others , which , I doubt not , he could as cafily have refuted . Mr. Upton wonders " with what kind of reafon- ing any one could be fo far impofed upon , as to imagine that ...
... fome arguments from fufpected imitations ; and yet offers others , which , I doubt not , he could as cafily have refuted . Mr. Upton wonders " with what kind of reafon- ing any one could be fo far impofed upon , as to imagine that ...
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... fome one ) may be puzzled to prove , that there was a Latin tranflation of Anacreon at the time Shakspeare wrote his Timon of Athens . " This challenge is peculiarly unhappy : for I do not at prefent recollect any other claffick , ( if ...
... fome one ) may be puzzled to prove , that there was a Latin tranflation of Anacreon at the time Shakspeare wrote his Timon of Athens . " This challenge is peculiarly unhappy : for I do not at prefent recollect any other claffick , ( if ...
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... fome Greek expreffions . " Indeed ! " We have one in Coriolanus : It is held That valour is the chiefeft virtue , and Moft dignifies the baver . " and another in Macbeth , where Banquo addresses the weird fifters : My noble partner You ...
... fome Greek expreffions . " Indeed ! " We have one in Coriolanus : It is held That valour is the chiefeft virtue , and Moft dignifies the baver . " and another in Macbeth , where Banquo addresses the weird fifters : My noble partner You ...
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... fome of the pretended you may look for in vain in fairies in The Merry Wives of Windfor : 66 Orphan heirs of fixed Destiny . " " And how elegant is this , " quoth Mr. Upton , fuppofing the word to be used , as a Grecian would 8 ...
... fome of the pretended you may look for in vain in fairies in The Merry Wives of Windfor : 66 Orphan heirs of fixed Destiny . " " And how elegant is this , " quoth Mr. Upton , fuppofing the word to be used , as a Grecian would 8 ...
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... fome deviations from him in the con- duct of it : when probably all he knew of the matter was from madam Ifabella in the Heptameron of Whetstone . Arifto . is continually quoted for the fable of Much ado about nothing ; but I fufpect ...
... fome deviations from him in the con- duct of it : when probably all he knew of the matter was from madam Ifabella in the Heptameron of Whetstone . Arifto . is continually quoted for the fable of Much ado about nothing ; but I fufpect ...
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Página 506 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much.
Página 215 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Página 506 - And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
Página 176 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 315 - Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make Essayes at Dramatique Poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his playes tooke well. He was a handsome well shap't man, very good company, and of a very readie and pleasant smooth witt.
Página 182 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 506 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 78 - How would it haue ioyed braue Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at seuerall times) who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Página 530 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that...
Página 137 - In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations) that, when players of enterludes come to...