The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
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Page vii
... Play of The Merchant of VENICE a clown is introduced quibbling in a mifer- able manner , upon which one who bears the character of a man of fenfe makes the following reflection ; How every fool can play upon a word ! I think the best ...
... Play of The Merchant of VENICE a clown is introduced quibbling in a mifer- able manner , upon which one who bears the character of a man of fenfe makes the following reflection ; How every fool can play upon a word ! I think the best ...
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... wonderful Prefervation of it ; which is fuch throughout his Plays , that had all the Speeches been printed without the very names of the Perfons , I be- lieve lieve one might have apply'd them with certainty to every Mr. POPE's PREFACE .
... wonderful Prefervation of it ; which is fuch throughout his Plays , that had all the Speeches been printed without the very names of the Perfons , I be- lieve lieve one might have apply'd them with certainty to every Mr. POPE's PREFACE .
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... plays , and put into the mouth of his Actors , the Grex , Chorus , & c . to remove the prejudices , and inform the judgment of his hearers . ' Till then , our Authors had no thoughts of writing on the mo- del of the Ancients ; their ...
... plays , and put into the mouth of his Actors , the Grex , Chorus , & c . to remove the prejudices , and inform the judgment of his hearers . ' Till then , our Authors had no thoughts of writing on the mo- del of the Ancients ; their ...
Page xv
... plays fufficiently evidence that his productions improved , in proportion to the refpect he had for his auditors ... Player , and forming himself first upon the judg- ments of that body of men whereof he was a member . They have ever had ...
... plays fufficiently evidence that his productions improved , in proportion to the refpect he had for his auditors ... Player , and forming himself first upon the judg- ments of that body of men whereof he was a member . They have ever had ...
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... Player . By these men it was thought a praise to Shake- Spear , that he scarce ever blotted a line . This they induftriously propagated , as appears from what we are told by Ben Johnson in his Difcoveries , and from the preface of ...
... Player . By these men it was thought a praise to Shake- Spear , that he scarce ever blotted a line . This they induftriously propagated , as appears from what we are told by Ben Johnson in his Difcoveries , and from the preface of ...
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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...