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One of the great admirers of this incomparable author hath made it the amusement of his leisure hours for many years past to look over his writings with a careful eye , to note the obscurities and absurdities introduced into the text ...
One of the great admirers of this incomparable author hath made it the amusement of his leisure hours for many years past to look over his writings with a careful eye , to note the obscurities and absurdities introduced into the text ...
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jured and abused than perhaps any that ever passed the press , hath been sufficiently explained in the preface to Mr. Pope's edition , which is here subjoined , and there needs no more to be said upon that subject .
jured and abused than perhaps any that ever passed the press , hath been sufficiently explained in the preface to Mr. Pope's edition , which is here subjoined , and there needs no more to be said upon that subject .
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... one who hath attained a high degree of perfection in those two great branches of poetry , tragedy and comedy , different as they are in their natures from each other ; and who may be said without partiality to have equalled , if not ...
... one who hath attained a high degree of perfection in those two great branches of poetry , tragedy and comedy , different as they are in their natures from each other ; and who may be said without partiality to have equalled , if not ...
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[ 1747 IT hath been no unusual thing for writers , when dissatisfied with the patronage or judgment of their own times , to appeal to posterity for a fair hearing . Some have even thought fit to apply to it in the first instance ...
[ 1747 IT hath been no unusual thing for writers , when dissatisfied with the patronage or judgment of their own times , to appeal to posterity for a fair hearing . Some have even thought fit to apply to it in the first instance ...
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... hath drawn a general , but very lively sketch of ' Shakspeare's poetick character ; and , in the corrected text , marked out those peculiar strokes of genius which were most proper to support and illustrate that character .
... hath drawn a general , but very lively sketch of ' Shakspeare's poetick character ; and , in the corrected text , marked out those peculiar strokes of genius which were most proper to support and illustrate that character .
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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.
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| Titel | The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Band 1 The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Autor/in | William Shakespeare |
| Verlag | F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Mai 2007 |
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