The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
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Página 99
... propagation and preservation of the truth are reflected upon , it is very difficult to conclude that when Better- ton instituted his inquiries , little more than twenty years H 2 NOTES . 99 up to the year 1670, when Lady Barnard died...
... propagation and preservation of the truth are reflected upon , it is very difficult to conclude that when Better- ton instituted his inquiries , little more than twenty years H 2 NOTES . 99 up to the year 1670, when Lady Barnard died...
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... truth . Aubrey's evidence is positive , " he understood Latin pretty well , for he had been in his younger years a school - master in the country ; " and is entitled to as much credit as any other tradition he has preserved , neither ...
... truth . Aubrey's evidence is positive , " he understood Latin pretty well , for he had been in his younger years a school - master in the country ; " and is entitled to as much credit as any other tradition he has preserved , neither ...
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... truth . My rejection of the tale of Shakspeare having held horses at the play - house door follows of course , it being impossible that of two stories , so inconsistent with each other , both should be true . The narrative in the text ...
... truth . My rejection of the tale of Shakspeare having held horses at the play - house door follows of course , it being impossible that of two stories , so inconsistent with each other , both should be true . The narrative in the text ...
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... were all dead in 1616 , except her . The truth is , that this ac- count came originally from Mr. Jones of Tarbrick , who related it from the information , not of one of I 4 . NOTES . 119 played well in favour of his being a first-...
... were all dead in 1616 , except her . The truth is , that this ac- count came originally from Mr. Jones of Tarbrick , who related it from the information , not of one of I 4 . NOTES . 119 played well in favour of his being a first-...
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... truth of history in vain . The part of the queen is altogether feebly written ; and the in- terview of separation between her and her wretched husband remarkable for its poverty and tameness . Richard is the only person in the play ...
... truth of history in vain . The part of the queen is altogether feebly written ; and the in- terview of separation between her and her wretched husband remarkable for its poverty and tameness . Richard is the only person in the play ...
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The life of Shakspeare; enquiries into the originality of his dramatic plots ... Augustine Skottowe Visualização integral - 1824 |
The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 1 Augustine Skottowe Visualização integral - 1824 |
The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His ..., Volume 1 Augustine Skottowe Visualização integral - 1824 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action actors appears Arden beauty Ben Jonson brother cardinal character circumstances Comedy of Errors copied court crown daughter death display doth drama dramatist Duke edition Elizabeth entirely exhibited fairies Falstaff father favour feet folio friar friar Lawrence Gentlemen of Verona Globe grace hand hath Henry the Fourth Henry the Sixth historian Holinshed honour incidents John Shakspeare Jonson Juliet Katharine king lady Lord Love's Labour's Lost lover Malone Malone's marriage Menechmus Merchant of Venice mind mistress nature never Note notice novel old play Oldys original passage passion performance person plot poem poet poet's prince printed quarto queen racter reign Richard Romeo Romeo and Juliet Romeus Rosader Rosalynd Saladyne scene servants Shak Shakspeare's Shakspeare's play Shrew speare stage Steevens story Strat Stratford Taming theatre theatrical thee Thomas Lucy thou thought tion truth Tybalt unto wife Wolsey
Passagens conhecidas
Página 260 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Página 269 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 73 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 254 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 153 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world...
Página 234 - Her own shall bless her: Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Página 69 - Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride...
Página 269 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 84 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Página 344 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...