Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 páginas |
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... . 14 . N wágEdge Oεe , O Dei affeffor . Nonnus in his paraphr . of St. John , in the beginning , ' Atigors σurbgor iden . Sophocles 1 no other reason than being common . Nor are rough 22 Book I. Critical Obfervations.
... . 14 . N wágEdge Oεe , O Dei affeffor . Nonnus in his paraphr . of St. John , in the beginning , ' Atigors σurbgor iden . Sophocles 1 no other reason than being common . Nor are rough 22 Book I. Critical Obfervations.
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... Sophocles in Oed . col . p . 316. Edit . Steph . fpeaks of Juftice , as The afsessor of Jove : Dixn uvede Znvós . So Arrian in Exped . Alex . IV , 9. οἱ πάλαι σοφὸς ἄνδρες τὴν Δίκην πάρεδρον τῷ Διὶ ἐποίησαν . Pindar calls Rhadaman- thus ...
... Sophocles in Oed . col . p . 316. Edit . Steph . fpeaks of Juftice , as The afsessor of Jove : Dixn uvede Znvós . So Arrian in Exped . Alex . IV , 9. οἱ πάλαι σοφὸς ἄνδρες τὴν Δίκην πάρεδρον τῷ Διὶ ἐποίησαν . Pindar calls Rhadaman- thus ...
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... Sophocles is blamed by Ariftotle for drawing Hemon cruel without neceffity . Perhaps Ariftotle's remark will appear over refined , if it be confidered what a small cir- cumstance this intended cruelty of Hemon's is in the play ; and ...
... Sophocles is blamed by Ariftotle for drawing Hemon cruel without neceffity . Perhaps Ariftotle's remark will appear over refined , if it be confidered what a small cir- cumstance this intended cruelty of Hemon's is in the play ; and ...
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... Sophocles , that neither the waters of the Danube , or Phafis can wasb him and his housa clear Οἶμαι γὰρ ἔτ ̓ ἂν Ἴσρον ἔτε Φᾶσιν ἂν BLY Νίψαι καθαρμῷ τήνδε τὴν σέγην . In allufion to their expiatory washings in the fea or rivers ...
... Sophocles , that neither the waters of the Danube , or Phafis can wasb him and his housa clear Οἶμαι γὰρ ἔτ ̓ ἂν Ἴσρον ἔτε Φᾶσιν ἂν BLY Νίψαι καθαρμῷ τήνδε τὴν σέγην . In allufion to their expiatory washings in the fea or rivers ...
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... Sophocles , in many instances , is not very unlike the Hamlet of Shakespeare . Aegyfthus and Clytemneftra , having murthered the former king , were in poffeffion of the crown , when Oreftes returned from Phocis , where he had been ...
... Sophocles , in many instances , is not very unlike the Hamlet of Shakespeare . Aegyfthus and Clytemneftra , having murthered the former king , were in poffeffion of the crown , when Oreftes returned from Phocis , where he had been ...
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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...