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believed when given lvi PRE FACE . Before Dr. Warburton's edition, Critical
observati.ns ...
Whatever I have taken from then it was my intention to refer to its origi , nal
authour , and it is certain , that what I have nog my own . given to another , I
believed when given lvi PRE FACE . Before Dr. Warburton's edition, Critical
observati.ns ...
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It has been obferv'd by Mr. Rowe , that amongst other Extravagancies which our
Author has given to his Sir John Feltoffe , in the Merry Wives of IVindsor , he has
made him a Deer - stealer ; and that he might at the same Time remember his ...
It has been obferv'd by Mr. Rowe , that amongst other Extravagancies which our
Author has given to his Sir John Feltoffe , in the Merry Wives of IVindsor , he has
made him a Deer - stealer ; and that he might at the same Time remember his ...
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For as to all those Things , which have been published under the titles of Elays ,
Remarks , Observations , & c . on Shakespear , ( if you except fome critical Notes
on Macbeth , given as a Specimen of a projected Edition , and written , as ...
For as to all those Things , which have been published under the titles of Elays ,
Remarks , Observations , & c . on Shakespear , ( if you except fome critical Notes
on Macbeth , given as a Specimen of a projected Edition , and written , as ...
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... cowardly , vain - glorious , and in short every way vicious , yet he has given him
so much wit as to make him almost too agreeable ; and I don't know whether
fome people have not , in remembrance of the diversion he had formerly afforded
...
... cowardly , vain - glorious , and in short every way vicious , yet he has given him
so much wit as to make him almost too agreeable ; and I don't know whether
fome people have not , in remembrance of the diversion he had formerly afforded
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in precept all of action ; that is , in i . c . thewing the several cuinings direction
given not by words but by of the way with his hand ; mute signs , which action
contained so many • I have poreft him . ] I have precepts , being given for my di-
made ...
in precept all of action ; that is , in i . c . thewing the several cuinings direction
given not by words but by of the way with his hand ; mute signs , which action
contained so many • I have poreft him . ] I have precepts , being given for my di-
made ...
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Página x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Página xxv - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página xxii - 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 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Página 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Página xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Página lxxiii - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
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| Título | The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Volume 1 The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, William Shakespeare |
| Autor | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Publicado | 1768 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 24 out. 2007 |
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