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Page xiv
In Comedy , nothing was so sure to Please , as mean buffoonry , vile ribaldry ,
and unmannerly jests of fools and clowns . Yet even in these , our Author's Wit
buoys up , and is born above his subject : his Genius in those low parts is like
some ...
In Comedy , nothing was so sure to Please , as mean buffoonry , vile ribaldry ,
and unmannerly jests of fools and clowns . Yet even in these , our Author's Wit
buoys up , and is born above his subject : his Genius in those low parts is like
some ...
Page xxiii
But as a proof that he could not escape it , in the old editions of Romeo and Juliet
there is no hint of a great number of the mean conceits and ribaldries now to be
found there . In others , the low scenes of Mobs , Plebeians and Clowns , are ...
But as a proof that he could not escape it , in the old editions of Romeo and Juliet
there is no hint of a great number of the mean conceits and ribaldries now to be
found there . In others , the low scenes of Mobs , Plebeians and Clowns , are ...
Page xxxi
He was receiv'd into the company then in being , at first in a very mean rank ; but
his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , foon distinguish'd him , if
not as an extraordinary Actor , yet as an excellent Writer . His name is printed ...
He was receiv'd into the company then in being , at first in a very mean rank ; but
his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , foon distinguish'd him , if
not as an extraordinary Actor , yet as an excellent Writer . His name is printed ...
Page xlv
That I not mix thee fo , my brain excuses ; I mean with great , but disproportiond
Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years , I pould commit thee surely
with thy Peers , Ånd tell how far thou didst our Lily out - shine , Or sporting Kid , or
...
That I not mix thee fo , my brain excuses ; I mean with great , but disproportiond
Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years , I pould commit thee surely
with thy Peers , Ånd tell how far thou didst our Lily out - shine , Or sporting Kid , or
...
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... fome failor's wife , The masters of some merchant , and the merchant Have just
our theam of woe : but for the miracle , ( I mean our preservation ) few in millions
Can speak like us : then wisely , good Sir , weigh Our sorrow with our comfort .
... fome failor's wife , The masters of some merchant , and the merchant Have just
our theam of woe : but for the miracle , ( I mean our preservation ) few in millions
Can speak like us : then wisely , good Sir , weigh Our sorrow with our comfort .
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Page 41 - 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.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 66 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...