The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....T. Bensley, 1800 |
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Page xv
... stands full before you , and you poffefs every part of it . I will venture to point out one more , which is , I think , as ftrong and as uncommon as any thing I ever faw ; it is an image of Patience . Speaking of a maid in love , he ...
... stands full before you , and you poffefs every part of it . I will venture to point out one more , which is , I think , as ftrong and as uncommon as any thing I ever faw ; it is an image of Patience . Speaking of a maid in love , he ...
Page xliii
... stand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Cor- neille , they have very generally received , by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than plea- fure to the ...
... stand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Cor- neille , they have very generally received , by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than plea- fure to the ...
Page xlviii
... stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be suspected , that these precepts have not been so easily received , but for better reafons than I have yet been ...
... stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be suspected , that these precepts have not been so easily received , but for better reafons than I have yet been ...
Page lvii
... stand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little , becomes at last capricious and cafual . Shakspeare , whether life or nature be his subject , shews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he ...
... stand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little , becomes at last capricious and cafual . Shakspeare , whether life or nature be his subject , shews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he ...
Page cxii
... standing lakes , and groves . This fpeech , Dr. Warburton rightly obferves to be borrowed from Medea in Ovid : and " it proves , " fays Mr. Holt , " beyond contradiction , that Shakspeare was perfectly acquainted with the fentiments of ...
... standing lakes , and groves . This fpeech , Dr. Warburton rightly obferves to be borrowed from Medea in Ovid : and " it proves , " fays Mr. Holt , " beyond contradiction , that Shakspeare was perfectly acquainted with the fentiments of ...
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Page 43 - 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 16 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page xlii - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 64 - 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, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 64 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Page 10 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page xxxiv - ... state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is...
Page xxx - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Page 26 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Page lxx - ... which all would be indifferent in its original state may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it. A commentator has indeed great temptations to supply by turbulence what he wants of dignity, to beat his little gold to a spacious surface, to work that to foam which no art or diligence can exalt to spirit.