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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... poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects ... poets , according to the laws which custom had prescribed , selected some the crimes of men , and some their ...
... poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects ... poets , according to the laws which custom had prescribed , selected some the crimes of men , and some their ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. Shakespeare engaged in dramatick poetry with the world open before him ; the rules of the ancients were yet known to few ; the publick judgment was unformed ; he had no example of fuch fame as might ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. Shakespeare engaged in dramatick poetry with the world open before him ; the rules of the ancients were yet known to few ; the publick judgment was unformed ; he had no example of fuch fame as might ...
Página xviii
... poets , passes without in- jury by the adamant of Shakespeare . If there be , what I believe there is , in ... poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than ...
... poets , passes without in- jury by the adamant of Shakespeare . If there be , what I believe there is , in ... poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than ...
Página xix
... poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which fets candour higher than truth . His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience ...
... poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which fets candour higher than truth . His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience ...
Página xxiii
... poet have never less reason to indulge their hopes of fupreme excel- lence , than when he seems fully resolved to sink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness , the danger of innocence , or the ...
... poet have never less reason to indulge their hopes of fupreme excel- lence , than when he seems fully resolved to sink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness , the danger of innocence , or the ...
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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.