Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... most confidered , and what is most confidered is beft " understood . . The poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revifion , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and ...
... most confidered , and what is most confidered is beft " understood . . The poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revifion , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and ...
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... most natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know . them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the remote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents ...
... most natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know . them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the remote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents ...
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... most of the criticisms of Rhymer and Voltaire vanifh away . The play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two centinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , without injury to the fcheme of the play , though in ̧ terms which ...
... most of the criticisms of Rhymer and Voltaire vanifh away . The play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two centinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , without injury to the fcheme of the play , though in ̧ terms which ...
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... most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a system of social duty ...
... most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a system of social duty ...
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... most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his invention , or strains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumour , meannefs , tedioufnefs , and ob- fcurity . In narration he affects a difproportionate pomp ...
... most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his invention , or strains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumour , meannefs , tedioufnefs , and ob- fcurity . In narration he affects a difproportionate pomp ...
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againſt Ariel becauſe Caius Caliban comedy Cymbeline defire doth Duke edition Enter Exeunt expreffion faid falfe fame fatire fcene feems fenfe fervant ferve fhall fhew fhould fignifies fince firft firſt fome fometimes Ford fpeak fpirit ftage ftand ftill fubject fuch fuppofe fure hath Henry Henry IV Henry VI himſelf Hoft humour John JOHNSON Jonfon king laft Laun lefs loft lord Macbeth mafter miftrefs Mira miſtreſs moft month's mind moſt muft muſt myſelf obferved occafion Othello paffage paffion perfon play pleaſe poet prefent printed Profpero Protheus publiſhed quarto Quic reafon Romeo and Juliet Shakeſpeare Shal ſhall ſhe Silvia Slen ſpeak Speed STEEVENS thee thefe Theobald theſe thofe thoſe thou Thurio Titus Andronicus tragedy tranflated Twelfth Night uſed Valentine WARBURTON whofe William Shakespeare word
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Página 292 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Página 98 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 63 - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Página 19 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Página 53 - Perhaps the lightness of the matter may conduce to the vehemence of the agency; when the truth to be investigated is so near to inexistence, as to escape attention, its bulk is to be enlarged by rage and exclamation: That to which all would be indifferent in its original state, may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it.
Página 215 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Página 27 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 11 - Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy; it required only a calamitous conclusion, with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied, whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress.
Página 229 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Página 4 - 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.