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... expression ; for some plays , like The Misfor- tunes of Arthur , and many books of superior consequence , like Fox's Martyrs , and the second edition of the Chronicles of Ho- linshed , & c . were carefully prepared for the publick eye ...
... expression ; for some plays , like The Misfor- tunes of Arthur , and many books of superior consequence , like Fox's Martyrs , and the second edition of the Chronicles of Ho- linshed , & c . were carefully prepared for the publick eye ...
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... expression , and to reach those excellencies of poetry with the ease of a first imagination , which himself with infinite labour and study could but hardly attain to . " I have preserved this passage because I believe it strictly true ...
... expression , and to reach those excellencies of poetry with the ease of a first imagination , which himself with infinite labour and study could but hardly attain to . " I have preserved this passage because I believe it strictly true ...
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... expression , that , as they collect from his papers , he had seldom occasion to alter the first words he had set down ; in consequence of which they found scarce a blot in his writings . And how is this refuted by Mr. Pope ? by telling ...
... expression , that , as they collect from his papers , he had seldom occasion to alter the first words he had set down ; in consequence of which they found scarce a blot in his writings . And how is this refuted by Mr. Pope ? by telling ...
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... expressions . The hasty sketch of The Merry Wives of Windsor , which he is said to have composed in a fortnight , he might have written without a blot ; and three or four years afterwards , when he chose to dilate his plan , he might ...
... expressions . The hasty sketch of The Merry Wives of Windsor , which he is said to have composed in a fortnight , he might have written without a blot ; and three or four years afterwards , when he chose to dilate his plan , he might ...
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... expression . Such must be his comprehension of thought , and such his co- piousness of language . Out of many readings possible , he must be able to select that which best suits with the state , opinions , and modes of language ...
... expression . Such must be his comprehension of thought , and such his co- piousness of language . Out of many readings possible , he must be able to select that which best suits with the state , opinions , and modes of language ...
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Página 150 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 76 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 71 - ... loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed; honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Página 350 - 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, As they were not of Nature's family.
Página 348 - Soul of the age! 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 359 - 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 livelong monument.
Página 41 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him...
Página 176 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.
Página 122 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; 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 273 - 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, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.