The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Band 1 |
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It may well be imagined that in such an intercourse , the works of our immortal poet would be a topick of pretty frequent occurrence ; and when he was finally preparing the result of his researches on that subject for the press ...
It may well be imagined that in such an intercourse , the works of our immortal poet would be a topick of pretty frequent occurrence ; and when he was finally preparing the result of his researches on that subject for the press ...
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There were several points upon which I was so far from coinciding with my late friend , that they have frequently led us into friendly controversy . I have felt myself bound to exhibit his sentiments , whether I thought them right or ...
There were several points upon which I was so far from coinciding with my late friend , that they have frequently led us into friendly controversy . I have felt myself bound to exhibit his sentiments , whether I thought them right or ...
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But if we look to the editions of Pope and Johnson , we shall frequently meet with mistakes which would be obvious to persons of the slightest acquirements in the present day . It will certainly not be maintained that the great mass of ...
But if we look to the editions of Pope and Johnson , we shall frequently meet with mistakes which would be obvious to persons of the slightest acquirements in the present day . It will certainly not be maintained that the great mass of ...
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In opposition to this insinuation , Mr. Malone has remarked , that when , by the permission of the Duke of Chandos , he had a drawing from the original , made by Mr. Ozias Humphrey , Sir Joshua was frequently present during its progress ...
In opposition to this insinuation , Mr. Malone has remarked , that when , by the permission of the Duke of Chandos , he had a drawing from the original , made by Mr. Ozias Humphrey , Sir Joshua was frequently present during its progress ...
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How then would he have been mortified and chagrined , if he had lived to peruse the last edition of Ben Jonson , in which not only his critical opinions are frequently treated with contempt , but even language ( I trust hastily ) ...
How then would he have been mortified and chagrined , if he had lived to peruse the last edition of Ben Jonson , in which not only his critical opinions are frequently treated with contempt , but even language ( I trust hastily ) ...
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Seite 476 - 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...
Seite xlvi - 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.
Seite 484 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...
Seite 459 - 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.
Seite 319 - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
Seite 473 - 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.
Seite 251 - To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, [s wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Seite 454 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Seite 502 - 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.
Seite 128 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.