The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, Volume 2Printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... least perfect works , " it is incumbent , I say , on those persons , to enu- merate in the former class , that is , among the plays pro- duced before 1600 , compositions of equal merit with Othello , King Lear , Macbeth , The Tempest ...
... least perfect works , " it is incumbent , I say , on those persons , to enu- merate in the former class , that is , among the plays pro- duced before 1600 , compositions of equal merit with Othello , King Lear , Macbeth , The Tempest ...
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... least any on which he But we have been written not long before his death ; for near the conclusion he says , " Albeit weakness will scarce suffer me to write , yet to my fellow schollers about this citie will I direct these few insuing ...
... least any on which he But we have been written not long before his death ; for near the conclusion he says , " Albeit weakness will scarce suffer me to write , yet to my fellow schollers about this citie will I direct these few insuing ...
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... least ( at several times ) , who , in the tragedian that represents his person , imagine they behold him fresh bleeding . " 4 . ર 5. S SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF KING HENRY VI . 1592 . In a tract already mentioned , entitled Greene's ...
... least ( at several times ) , who , in the tragedian that represents his person , imagine they behold him fresh bleeding . " 4 . ર 5. S SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF KING HENRY VI . 1592 . In a tract already mentioned , entitled Greene's ...
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... least as much of it as relates to the quarrels of Oberon and Titania ) , was not of our author's invention * .- Through the whole piece , the more * The learned editor of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , printed in 1775 , observes in his ...
... least as much of it as relates to the quarrels of Oberon and Titania ) , was not of our author's invention * .- Through the whole piece , the more * The learned editor of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , printed in 1775 , observes in his ...
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... least part of it , was written in 1591 ; the novels from which Shakspere may be sup- posed to have drawn his story , not mentioning any such circumstance ; while , on the other hand , there actually was an earthquake in England on the ...
... least part of it , was written in 1591 ; the novels from which Shakspere may be sup- posed to have drawn his story , not mentioning any such circumstance ; while , on the other hand , there actually was an earthquake in England on the ...
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Página 526 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage : or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Página 548 - 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 522 - To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much.
Página 524 - 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 554 - 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 377 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other — Enter Lady MACBETH.
Página 474 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Página 482 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Página 474 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Página 460 - She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor.