The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Band 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... judgment and taste of our nation . For of all English poets Shakspeare must be confessed to be the fairest and fullest subject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most conspicuous instances , both of beauties ...
... judgment and taste of our nation . For of all English poets Shakspeare must be confessed to be the fairest and fullest subject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most conspicuous instances , both of beauties ...
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... judgment of his hearers . Till then , our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their ... judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member . They have ever had 6 MR . POPE'S PREFACE .
... judgment of his hearers . Till then , our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their ... judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member . They have ever had 6 MR . POPE'S PREFACE .
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... judgment to a short point . Players are just such judges of what is right , as tailors are of what is graceful . And in this view it will be but fair to allow , that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment ...
... judgment to a short point . Players are just such judges of what is right , as tailors are of what is graceful . And in this view it will be but fair to allow , that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment ...
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... judgment . But as to his want of learning , it may be necessary to say something more ; there is certainly a vast difference between learning and languages . How far he was ignorant of the latter , I cannot determine ; but it is plain ...
... judgment . But as to his want of learning , it may be necessary to say something more ; there is certainly a vast difference between learning and languages . How far he was ignorant of the latter , I cannot determine ; but it is plain ...
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... judgment . For men of judgment think they do any man more service in praising him justly , than lavishly . I say , I would fain believe they were friends , though the violence and ill breeding of their followers and flatterers were ...
... judgment . For men of judgment think they do any man more service in praising him justly , than lavishly . I say , I would fain believe they were friends , though the violence and ill breeding of their followers and flatterers were ...
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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.