The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes, Volume 12 |
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... expressions . He is " sweetest Shake- spear , " he is " Fancy's child . " In his later years , after a life of contention and heavy respon- sibility , Milton still clung to his early delights . The " Theatrum Poetarum , " which bears ...
... expressions . He is " sweetest Shake- spear , " he is " Fancy's child . " In his later years , after a life of contention and heavy respon- sibility , Milton still clung to his early delights . The " Theatrum Poetarum , " which bears ...
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... , and we shall find in him a graceful and poetic majesty : in like manner , Shakespear , in spite of all his unfiled expressions , his rambling and indigested fancies , the laughter of the critical , 50 HISTORY OF OPINION.
... , and we shall find in him a graceful and poetic majesty : in like manner , Shakespear , in spite of all his unfiled expressions , his rambling and indigested fancies , the laughter of the critical , 50 HISTORY OF OPINION.
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... expressions . " The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem , and which holds , too , by the same reason in all dramatic poetry , is to make the moral of the work ; that is , 82 HISTORY OF OPINION.
... expressions . " The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem , and which holds , too , by the same reason in all dramatic poetry , is to make the moral of the work ; that is , 82 HISTORY OF OPINION.
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... expression : he often obscures his meaning by his words , and sometimes makes it unintelligible . I will not say of ... expressing passion figura- tively ; but 90 HISTORY OF OPINION.
... expression : he often obscures his meaning by his words , and sometimes makes it unintelligible . I will not say of ... expressing passion figura- tively ; but 90 HISTORY OF OPINION.
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... expression of trifling thoughts ! Would not a man have thought that the poet had been bound prentice to a wheelwright for his first rant ? and had followed a ragman for the clout and blanket in the second ? But Shakespear does not often ...
... expression of trifling thoughts ! Would not a man have thought that the poet had been bound prentice to a wheelwright for his first rant ? and had followed a ragman for the clout and blanket in the second ? But Shakespear does not often ...
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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.