The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Volume 1 |
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... pre- fent humour , and complying with the wit in fashion ; a confideration which brings all their judgment to a short point . Players are just such judges of what is right , as Taylors are of what is graceful . And in this VOL . I. view ...
... pre- fent humour , and complying with the wit in fashion ; a confideration which brings all their judgment to a short point . Players are just such judges of what is right , as Taylors are of what is graceful . And in this VOL . I. view ...
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... pre- fent age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a plea- fing and a well - diftinguished variety in those charac- ters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falstaff is allow'd by every body to be a master - piece ; the Cha ...
... pre- fent age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a plea- fing and a well - diftinguished variety in those charac- ters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falstaff is allow'd by every body to be a master - piece ; the Cha ...
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... prefent Text may Hand . 6 Brother , farewel ! ] As Gon- zalo had no Brother in the Ship , this Line should , I think , be given to Alonso the King , tak- ing leave of his Brother Se- bastian to which the next Lines make the natural ...
... prefent Text may Hand . 6 Brother , farewel ! ] As Gon- zalo had no Brother in the Ship , this Line should , I think , be given to Alonso the King , tak- ing leave of his Brother Se- bastian to which the next Lines make the natural ...
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... prefent reading is quite ar- bitrary , as appears by the ne- Candied be they or melt . That is , let my conscience be dried up and lie unactive , or melt and run quite away . 8 For Morfel Dr. Warburton reads antient Moral , very ele ...
... prefent reading is quite ar- bitrary , as appears by the ne- Candied be they or melt . That is , let my conscience be dried up and lie unactive , or melt and run quite away . 8 For Morfel Dr. Warburton reads antient Moral , very ele ...
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... should he learn our language ? I will give him fome relief , if it be but for that : if I can recover him , and keep him tame , and get to Naples with him , he's a prefent present for any Emperor that ever trod on neats - 44 THE TEMPEST .
... should he learn our language ? I will give him fome relief , if it be but for that : if I can recover him , and keep him tame , and get to Naples with him , he's a prefent present for any Emperor that ever trod on neats - 44 THE TEMPEST .
Palavras e frases frequentes
Angelo anſwer Anthonio Ariel Author Baff Baffanio becauſe Ben Johnson beſt buſineſs Caliban cauſe chuſe Clown defire Demetrius doth ducats Duke Edition Efcal elſe Enter Exeunt Exit eyes faid Fairies falſe fame father feems fince firſt fome foul fuch fure Giannetto give grace haſte hath heav'n Hermia honour houſe Ifab juſt lady laſt Laun leſs lord loſe Lucio maſter miſtreſs moſt muſick muſt night obſerved paſſage play pleaſe pleaſure Poet Pompey praiſe pray preſent Protheus Prov Puck purpoſe Pyramus racter reaſon reſpect reſt ſame ſay SCENE ſcenes ſeems ſenſe Shakespear ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhip ſhould Shylock Silvia Solarino ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpeech Speed ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtay ſtill ſtory ſtrange ſuch ſuppoſe ſwear ſweet thee THEOBALD theſe thing thoſe thou art Thurio uſe Valentine WARBURTON whoſe word
Passagens conhecidas
Página x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. 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 xxv - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página xxii - 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 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Página 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Página xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Página lxxiii - ... 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.