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When more advanced years had rendered me less unworthy of his society , I was permitted to enjoy it in the most unreserved and confidential manner , and was made a partaker of his literary views and sentiments .
When more advanced years had rendered me less unworthy of his society , I was permitted to enjoy it in the most unreserved and confidential manner , and was made a partaker of his literary views and sentiments .
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His republication of the early quartos of Shakspeare in 1766 , is one of the most grossly incorrect performances that I have ever seen ; and his edition of our poet's plays , in conjunction with Dr. Johnson in 1773 , was scarcely less ...
His republication of the early quartos of Shakspeare in 1766 , is one of the most grossly incorrect performances that I have ever seen ; and his edition of our poet's plays , in conjunction with Dr. Johnson in 1773 , was scarcely less ...
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If , on the other hand , we were to enumerate the instances in which the second folio has been deserted by Mr. Steevens himself , we shall form a still less estimate of its value . I cannot say that I have undertaken the same laborious ...
If , on the other hand , we were to enumerate the instances in which the second folio has been deserted by Mr. Steevens himself , we shall form a still less estimate of its value . I cannot say that I have undertaken the same laborious ...
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If we go back to an earlier period , we shall find the general reader still less acquainted with his merits , till at last we revert to that age of critical darkness , when he was reviled by Rymer , and patronized by Tate .
If we go back to an earlier period , we shall find the general reader still less acquainted with his merits , till at last we revert to that age of critical darkness , when he was reviled by Rymer , and patronized by Tate .
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That a duty has by some persons been imperfectly performed , is no sufficient reason why others should neglect it altogether ; nor can the deceit , which he insinuates has sometimes been practised , render it less incumbent on an honest ...
That a duty has by some persons been imperfectly performed , is no sufficient reason why others should neglect it altogether ; nor can the deceit , which he insinuates has sometimes been practised , render it less incumbent on an honest ...
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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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