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I am the more bold to offer you this are such necessary supports to it , that , by the particular instance , because the late Mr. Addison , multitude , they have been preferred to genius iti bile I sat by him , to see the scene acted ...
I am the more bold to offer you this are such necessary supports to it , that , by the particular instance , because the late Mr. Addison , multitude , they have been preferred to genius iti bile I sat by him , to see the scene acted ...
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Garrick voice so peculiarly musical , as , very early in life , * as often present at these scenes of misery , and used obtained him the appellation of “ The silver - toned to say thai it gave bin the first idea of Lear's mad- Barry ...
Garrick voice so peculiarly musical , as , very early in life , * as often present at these scenes of misery , and used obtained him the appellation of “ The silver - toned to say thai it gave bin the first idea of Lear's mad- Barry ...
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But when Shylock and Bassanio entered performance in four of Shakspeare's characters , in the third scene , there was an awful silence , a not so much in the hope of doing justice to bis prepis might bave been heard if dropt upon the ...
But when Shylock and Bassanio entered performance in four of Shakspeare's characters , in the third scene , there was an awful silence , a not so much in the hope of doing justice to bis prepis might bave been heard if dropt upon the ...
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Riebard's scene in the fourth act with Stanley , be - trusive suggestions of lago , any other motive than tin G10 his extreme love and bouesty . Cooke's peculiarities of manner and voice were singularly adapted Gloster .
Riebard's scene in the fourth act with Stanley , be - trusive suggestions of lago , any other motive than tin G10 his extreme love and bouesty . Cooke's peculiarities of manner and voice were singularly adapted Gloster .
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This have been conveyed in a whole page of blank verse . scene of mutual sensibility was so affecting , that many of the audience burst into tears , and all were Her voice was by far the finest we have ever heard , enthusiastic in their ...
This have been conveyed in a whole page of blank verse . scene of mutual sensibility was so affecting , that many of the audience burst into tears , and all were Her voice was by far the finest we have ever heard , enthusiastic in their ...
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Page 144 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 296 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 257 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 94 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 284 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
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Page 97 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 147 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page l - Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice. Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism...
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| Title | The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | W. Harvey |
| Publisher | proprietors of the "London stage", 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 896 pages |
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