The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes, Volume 12 |
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William Shakespeare Charles Knight. the " Complaint " of Thalia , the Muse of Comedy , the state of the drama at the time in which he is writing : " Where be the sweet delights of learning's treasure , That wont with comic stock to ...
William Shakespeare Charles Knight. the " Complaint " of Thalia , the Muse of Comedy , the state of the drama at the time in which he is writing : " Where be the sweet delights of learning's treasure , That wont with comic stock to ...
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... comedy . a fit motion for a jester and a player to try what may be done by employment of his faculty . Bables and comedies are parlous fellows to decipher and discourage men ( that is the point ) with their witty flouts and learned ...
... comedy . a fit motion for a jester and a player to try what may be done by employment of his faculty . Bables and comedies are parlous fellows to decipher and discourage men ( that is the point ) with their witty flouts and learned ...
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... comedy , and the trifling comedy flouteth the new ruffianism . " These circumstances appear to us very remarkable , with reference to the state of the drama about 1590 ; and we hope that we do not attach any undue importance to them ...
... comedy , and the trifling comedy flouteth the new ruffianism . " These circumstances appear to us very remarkable , with reference to the state of the drama about 1590 ; and we hope that we do not attach any undue importance to them ...
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... comedy , except some three or four of Shakspere's , which could have existed before 1590 ; we do not believe there is such a comedy from any other pen . What , according to the " Complaint " of Thalia , has banished such comedy ...
... comedy , except some three or four of Shakspere's , which could have existed before 1590 ; we do not believe there is such a comedy from any other pen . What , according to the " Complaint " of Thalia , has banished such comedy ...
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... comedy flouteth the new ruf- fianism . " The words of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser agree in this . The bravos that " have the stage at commandment can furnish out vices and devils at their pleasure , " says Harvey . This describes ...
... comedy flouteth the new ruf- fianism . " The words of Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser agree in this . The bravos that " have the stage at commandment can furnish out vices and devils at their pleasure , " says Harvey . This describes ...
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Página 30 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 25 - 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 18 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 42 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Página 146 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 20 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 17 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 30 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Página 34 - And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun. And woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie...
Página 31 - ... his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.