The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... last from the publick eye . Why it was not inserted in the late History of Bristol , as well as Rowley's plan and elevation of its ancient castle , ( which all the rules of all the ages of architecture pronounce to be spurious ) let the ...
... last from the publick eye . Why it was not inserted in the late History of Bristol , as well as Rowley's plan and elevation of its ancient castle , ( which all the rules of all the ages of architecture pronounce to be spurious ) let the ...
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... last in the muddy reservoir of the first folio . * In plainer terms , that the vitia- It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio we are indebted for the only copies of sixteen or seventeen of our author's plays . True : tions ...
... last in the muddy reservoir of the first folio . * In plainer terms , that the vitia- It will perhaps be urged , that to this first folio we are indebted for the only copies of sixteen or seventeen of our author's plays . True : tions ...
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... last acts of Hamlet , and in Othello . The length of this prefatory advertisement has precluded their exemplification , which was here meant to have been given . We wish , however , to impress the foregoing circum stance on the memory ...
... last acts of Hamlet , and in Othello . The length of this prefatory advertisement has precluded their exemplification , which was here meant to have been given . We wish , however , to impress the foregoing circum stance on the memory ...
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... last editor , whose attention , diligence , and spirit of enquiry , have very far exceeded those of the whole united phalanx of his predecessors . — His additions to our author's Life , his attempt to ascertain the Order in which his ...
... last editor , whose attention , diligence , and spirit of enquiry , have very far exceeded those of the whole united phalanx of his predecessors . — His additions to our author's Life , his attempt to ascertain the Order in which his ...
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... last editor of Shakspeare . What errors then might not have been expected , when compositors were wholly unlettered and careless , and a corrector of the press an officer unknown ? To him who is in- clined to dispute our grounds for this ...
... last editor of Shakspeare . What errors then might not have been expected , when compositors were wholly unlettered and careless , and a corrector of the press an officer unknown ? To him who is in- clined to dispute our grounds for this ...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ... William Shakespeare Visualização integral - 1793 |
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ... William Shakespeare Visualização integral - 1793 |
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ... William Shakespeare Visualização integral - 1793 |
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Página 186 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 221 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 179 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 221 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 47 - They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
Página 176 - 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 220 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation.
Página 192 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Página 358 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Página 184 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.