The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... death . Even at the time when Johnson wrote his admirable preface , not only was the knowledge of his excellence almost wholly con- fined to his own countrymen , but even among them there were not a few who were disposed to adopt , in ...
... death . Even at the time when Johnson wrote his admirable preface , not only was the knowledge of his excellence almost wholly con- fined to his own countrymen , but even among them there were not a few who were disposed to adopt , in ...
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... death of Sir William D'Avenant , to whom it had belonged . Such a chain of traditional evidence is seldom to be found in pedigrees of this description ; and therefore Mr. Steevens , resorting to his usual weapon of ridicule , has ...
... death of Sir William D'Avenant , to whom it had belonged . Such a chain of traditional evidence is seldom to be found in pedigrees of this description ; and therefore Mr. Steevens , resorting to his usual weapon of ridicule , has ...
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... death of the person supposed to be re- presented ; and then ( as Edmund says in King Lear ) , come pat , like the catastrophe of the old comedy . ' Shakspeare was buried in 1616 ; and in 1708 the first notice of this picture occurs ...
... death of the person supposed to be re- presented ; and then ( as Edmund says in King Lear ) , come pat , like the catastrophe of the old comedy . ' Shakspeare was buried in 1616 ; and in 1708 the first notice of this picture occurs ...
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... death , I sought in vain for this and some other family relics , and at length had abandoned all hope of ever finding them , when chance most unexpectedly re- stored them to me about ten days ago , in consequence of the opening of a ...
... death , I sought in vain for this and some other family relics , and at length had abandoned all hope of ever finding them , when chance most unexpectedly re- stored them to me about ten days ago , in consequence of the opening of a ...
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... death a work has come forth of such acknowledged excellence in other respects , and proceeding from a writer of such literary eminence , containing remarks of such a nature , that I cannot feel myself justified in passing them over in ...
... death a work has come forth of such acknowledged excellence in other respects , and proceeding from a writer of such literary eminence , containing remarks of such a nature , that I cannot feel myself justified in passing them over in ...
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Page 476 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page xlvi - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 484 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics 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 live-long monument. For whilst to th...
Page 459 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 319 - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
Page 473 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.
Page 251 - To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, [s wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Page 454 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 502 - This pencil take' (she said), 'whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year: Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Page 128 - Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect Coppie.