Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 páginas |
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... Roman manners . Our reading , if we could read at all , was fuch as the Monks were pleased to allow us , either pious tales of their own forg- ing , or lying hiftories of adventurous knight- errants . Our heroes were of a piece with our ...
... Roman manners . Our reading , if we could read at all , was fuch as the Monks were pleased to allow us , either pious tales of their own forg- ing , or lying hiftories of adventurous knight- errants . Our heroes were of a piece with our ...
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... Roman flowers collect their honey ; and they should give a new fashion and dress , not contradicting however probability and fame , to whatever is meerly of a British and barbarous growth , agreeable to their imagination and crea- tive ...
... Roman flowers collect their honey ; and they should give a new fashion and dress , not contradicting however probability and fame , to whatever is meerly of a British and barbarous growth , agreeable to their imagination and crea- tive ...
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... Roman women , had pre- served their country from fire and fword , and the resentment of that proud patrician . How could the fenate reward them proportionably to their defert ? Why , as Valerius Maximus tells us , 1. 5. c . 2. Sanxit ...
... Roman women , had pre- served their country from fire and fword , and the resentment of that proud patrician . How could the fenate reward them proportionably to their defert ? Why , as Valerius Maximus tells us , 1. 5. c . 2. Sanxit ...
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... and no folid good , because he miffed his aim to re- ftore the Roman liberty . Nunquam fucceffu crefcit boneftum . G4 larly Jarly mention'd by Suetonius , Reftitit aliquandiu collegis , ne Sect . 10. on SHAKESPEARE . 87.
... and no folid good , because he miffed his aim to re- ftore the Roman liberty . Nunquam fucceffu crefcit boneftum . G4 larly Jarly mention'd by Suetonius , Reftitit aliquandiu collegis , ne Sect . 10. on SHAKESPEARE . 87.
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... Roman stage ? ' Tis the humours and customs of their own times , that people love to fee repre- 9 , fented ; not being over follicitous or interested in what is transacted in other countries . Hence ' twas wifely judged by Steele , in ...
... Roman stage ? ' Tis the humours and customs of their own times , that people love to fee repre- 9 , fented ; not being over follicitous or interested in what is transacted in other countries . Hence ' twas wifely judged by Steele , in ...
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Página 125 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Página 125 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 216 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 76 - ... then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Página 20 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, — a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
Página 95 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 245 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Página 138 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Página 18 - And afterwards he came out of his concealment, and lived many years much visited by all strangers, and much admired by all at home, for the poems he wrote, though he was then blind, chiefly that of Paradise Lost, in which there is a nobleness both of contrivance and execution, that, though he affected to write in blank verse, without rhyme, and made many new and rough words...
Página 76 - ... not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal ; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love ; after many traverses she is got with child; delivered of a fair boy; he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child ; and all this in two hours...