The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Some account of Shakespeare's life and writings, written by N. Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. An essay on the learning of Shakespeare; addressed to Joseph Cradock, Esq. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor.-v. 2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. As you like it.-v. 3. Midsummer night's dream. Much ado nothing. Love's labours lost. Taming of the shrew.-v. 4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.-v. 5. King John. Richard the Second. Henry the Fourth, pt. 1-2.-v. 6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, pt. 1-3.-v. 7. Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus.-v. 8. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.-v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet.-v. 10. Hamlet. Othello. Pericles, prince of TyreH. Durell, 1817 |
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... suppose , he valued himself least upon , since his excellences were all of another kind . I am very sensible that he does , in this play , depart too much from that likeness to truth which ought to be observed in this sort of writings ...
... suppose , he valued himself least upon , since his excellences were all of another kind . I am very sensible that he does , in this play , depart too much from that likeness to truth which ought to be observed in this sort of writings ...
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... suppose himself to sit in the theatre , while ambassadors go and return between distant kings , while armies are levied and towns besieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they saw courting his mistress , shall ...
... suppose himself to sit in the theatre , while ambassadors go and return between distant kings , while armies are levied and towns besieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they saw courting his mistress , shall ...
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... suppose , that , when he rose to notice , he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and critics , and that he at last deliberately per- sisted in a practice , which he might have begun by chance . As nothing is essential ...
... suppose , that , when he rose to notice , he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars and critics , and that he at last deliberately per- sisted in a practice , which he might have begun by chance . As nothing is essential ...
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... suppose , that he chose the most popular , such as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the thread of the story in their hands ...
... suppose , that he chose the most popular , such as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the thread of the story in their hands ...
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... suppose , since the ardour of composition is remitted , he no longer numbers among his happy effusions . The original and predominant error of his commentary , is acquiescence in his first thoughts ; that precipitation which is produced ...
... suppose , since the ardour of composition is remitted , he no longer numbers among his happy effusions . The original and predominant error of his commentary , is acquiescence in his first thoughts ; that precipitation which is produced ...
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ancient ARIEL Ben Jonson Cæsar Caius Caliban called character comedy criticism daughter devil dost doth Duke duke of Milan Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fairies Falstaff father 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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Página 169 - 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; by whose aid, — Weak masters though ye be, — I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the...
Página 15 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 227 - 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 171 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 165 - 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 160 - 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, pronounc'd 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 170 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 11 - 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...
Página 146 - A strange fish ! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 20 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.