Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a senator of Rome , should play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish usurper is repre- sented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare ...
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a senator of Rome , should play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish usurper is repre- sented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare ...
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... kings , while armies are levied and towns besieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they saw courting his mistress , shall lament the untimely fall of his son . The mind re- volts from evident falsehood , and ...
... kings , while armies are levied and towns besieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they saw courting his mistress , shall lament the untimely fall of his son . The mind re- volts from evident falsehood , and ...
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... KING JOHN . The tragedy of King John , though not written with the utmost power of Shakespeare , is varied with a very pleasing interchange of incidents and characters . The lady's grief is very affecting ; and the character of the ...
... KING JOHN . The tragedy of King John , though not written with the utmost power of Shakespeare , is varied with a very pleasing interchange of incidents and characters . The lady's grief is very affecting ; and the character of the ...
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... KING HENRY IV . PART II . I fancy every reader , when he ends this play , cries out with Desdemona , " O most lame and im- potent conclusion ! " As this play was not , to our knowledge , divided into acts by the author , I could be ...
... KING HENRY IV . PART II . I fancy every reader , when he ends this play , cries out with Desdemona , " O most lame and im- potent conclusion ! " As this play was not , to our knowledge , divided into acts by the author , I could be ...
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... KING HENRY V. This play has many scenes of high dignity , and many of easy merriment . The character of the king is well supported , except in his courtship , where he has neither the vivacity of Hal , nor the grandeur of Henry . The ...
... KING HENRY V. This play has many scenes of high dignity , and many of easy merriment . The character of the king is well supported , except in his courtship , where he has neither the vivacity of Hal , nor the grandeur of Henry . The ...
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