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Page vii
In his Play of The Merchant of Venice a clown is introduced quibbling in a
miserable manner , upon which one who bears the character of a man of sense
makes the following reflection ; How every fool can play upon a word ! I think the
best ...
In his Play of The Merchant of Venice a clown is introduced quibbling in a
miserable manner , upon which one who bears the character of a man of sense
makes the following reflection ; How every fool can play upon a word ! I think the
best ...
Page xi
To this life and variety of Character , we must add the wonderful Preferyation of it ;
which is such throughout his Plays , that had all the Speeches been printed
without the very names of the Persons , I believe lieve one might have apply'd
them ...
To this life and variety of Character , we must add the wonderful Preferyation of it ;
which is such throughout his Plays , that had all the Speeches been printed
without the very names of the Persons , I believe lieve one might have apply'd
them ...
Page xiii
... their own rank : accordingly we find , that not our Author's only but almost all
the old Comedies have their Scene among Tradesmen and Mechanicks : And
even their Historical Plays strictly follow the common Old Stories or Vulgar
Traditions ...
... their own rank : accordingly we find , that not our Author's only but almost all
the old Comedies have their Scene among Tradesmen and Mechanicks : And
even their Historical Plays strictly follow the common Old Stories or Vulgar
Traditions ...
Page xiv
... brought critical learning into vogue : And that this was not done without
difficulty , may appear from those frequent leffons ( and indeed almost
Declamations ) which he was forced to prefix to his first plays , and put into the
mouth of his Actors ...
... brought critical learning into vogue : And that this was not done without
difficulty , may appear from those frequent leffons ( and indeed almost
Declamations ) which he was forced to prefix to his first plays , and put into the
mouth of his Actors ...
Page xv
The Dates of his plays sufficiently evidence that his productions improved , in
proportion to the respect he had for his auditors . And I make no doubt this
observation would be found true in every instance , were but Editions extant from
which ...
The Dates of his plays sufficiently evidence that his productions improved , in
proportion to the respect he had for his auditors . And I make no doubt this
observation would be found true in every instance , were but Editions extant from
which ...
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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...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1 The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Sir Thomas Hanmer |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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