The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage, Volume 1Whittaker & Company, 1844 |
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... tion , purport to be real personages , has recently been discovered in the library of Trinity College , Dublin , in a manuscript certainly as old as the later part of the reign of Edward IV.2 It is perhaps the only specimen of the kind ...
... tion , purport to be real personages , has recently been discovered in the library of Trinity College , Dublin , in a manuscript certainly as old as the later part of the reign of Edward IV.2 It is perhaps the only specimen of the kind ...
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... tion , and of a directly opposite tendency , was written and acted . It has never been mentioned , and as it exists only in manuscript of the time , it will not be out of place to quote its title , and to explain briefly in what manner ...
... tion , and of a directly opposite tendency , was written and acted . It has never been mentioned , and as it exists only in manuscript of the time , it will not be out of place to quote its title , and to explain briefly in what manner ...
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... tion ; while People , using throughout a rustic dialect , also complain bitterly of their sufferings , especially since the introduction of what had been termed " Re- formation " in matters of faith : in the end Justitia brings in ...
... tion ; while People , using throughout a rustic dialect , also complain bitterly of their sufferings , especially since the introduction of what had been termed " Re- formation " in matters of faith : in the end Justitia brings in ...
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... tion of the nature of popular theatrical representations in 1578. " The Englishman ( he remarks ) in this quality is most vain , indiscreet , and out of order . He first grounds his work on impossibilities , then , in three hours , runs ...
... tion of the nature of popular theatrical representations in 1578. " The Englishman ( he remarks ) in this quality is most vain , indiscreet , and out of order . He first grounds his work on impossibilities , then , in three hours , runs ...
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... tion to the Literature of Europe , " vol . ii . p . 171 , edit . 1843 ) , " I am reluctant to admit that Shakespeare modelled his characters by those of others ; and it is natural to ask whether there were not an extraordinary likeness ...
... tion to the Literature of Europe , " vol . ii . p . 171 , edit . 1843 ) , " I am reluctant to admit that Shakespeare modelled his characters by those of others ; and it is natural to ask whether there were not an extraordinary likeness ...
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Page 64 - O, it is monstrous, monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper : it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 77 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page cclxxxi - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques 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 livelong monument.
Page 83 - 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 29 - Some god o' th' island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the King my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air; thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Page cclxxviii - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Page cclxii - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page cxxxi - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 128 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 77 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.