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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... writes her a letter , which Merrygreek reads without a due observance of the punctuation , so that it entirely perverts the meaning of the writer : he visits her while she is surrounded by her female do- mestics , but he is ...
... writes her a letter , which Merrygreek reads without a due observance of the punctuation , so that it entirely perverts the meaning of the writer : he visits her while she is surrounded by her female do- mestics , but he is ...
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... write it . 6 We learn from various authorities , that Christopher Marlowe. * Sometimes plays written in prose were , at a subsequent date , when blank- verse had become the popular form of composition , published as if they had been ...
... write it . 6 We learn from various authorities , that Christopher Marlowe. * Sometimes plays written in prose were , at a subsequent date , when blank- verse had become the popular form of composition , published as if they had been ...
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... write for the stage in rhyme , and his blank - verse preserves nearly all the defects of that early form : it reads heavily and monotonously , without variety of pause and inflec- tion. 5 In " The History of English Dramatic Poetry and ...
... write for the stage in rhyme , and his blank - verse preserves nearly all the defects of that early form : it reads heavily and monotonously , without variety of pause and inflec- tion. 5 In " The History of English Dramatic Poetry and ...
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... write as early as 1580 , and we may safely consider his tragedy anterior to the original works of Shakespeare : it was probably written about 1587 or 1588 , as a not very successful experiment in blank - verse , in imitation of that ...
... write as early as 1580 , and we may safely consider his tragedy anterior to the original works of Shakespeare : it was probably written about 1587 or 1588 , as a not very successful experiment in blank - verse , in imitation of that ...
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... write the second part of it immediately ; and we need not hesitate in concluding that " The Spanish Tragedy " had been acted before 1590 . Besides Marlowe , Greene , Lodge , Lyly , Peele , and Kyd , there were other dramatists , who may ...
... write the second part of it immediately ; and we need not hesitate in concluding that " The Spanish Tragedy " had been acted before 1590 . Besides Marlowe , Greene , Lodge , Lyly , Peele , and Kyd , there were other dramatists , who may ...
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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.