The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Dramatists, English |
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... racter he had personated . In representations at noblemen's houses , a prayer for the patron of the company , and at the public theatres , for the king and queen , closed the performance . The prayer was sometimes interwoven in the epi ...
... racter he had personated . In representations at noblemen's houses , a prayer for the patron of the company , and at the public theatres , for the king and queen , closed the performance . The prayer was sometimes interwoven in the epi ...
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... racter in the hour of adversity ; and this brief notice has been expanded by the magic genius of Shakspeare into a perfect picture of intellectual cowardice . He who was at one moment self- confident , nothing doubting , comparing his ...
... racter in the hour of adversity ; and this brief notice has been expanded by the magic genius of Shakspeare into a perfect picture of intellectual cowardice . He who was at one moment self- confident , nothing doubting , comparing his ...
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... racter whatever to the fierce encounter between the martial competitors for the crown . " Enter Richard and Richmond ; and exeunt , fighting , " is the vapid close of the career of the only eminent personage of the tragedy . Richard the ...
... racter whatever to the fierce encounter between the martial competitors for the crown . " Enter Richard and Richmond ; and exeunt , fighting , " is the vapid close of the career of the only eminent personage of the tragedy . Richard the ...
Page 240
... that flourish in the old dramas , as if he were of a different race of beings . The romance affords no hint whatever for the cha- * Act V. sc . 4 . racter , or , as it would be more properly 240. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA .
... that flourish in the old dramas , as if he were of a different race of beings . The romance affords no hint whatever for the cha- * Act V. sc . 4 . racter , or , as it would be more properly 240. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA .
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... racter , or , as it would be more properly stated , the characters of Launce and his dog . The master of this " cruel hearted cur " narrates his actions , interprets his thoughts , and explains his qualities , as of infinite importance ...
... racter , or , as it would be more properly stated , the characters of Launce and his dog . The master of this " cruel hearted cur " narrates his actions , interprets his thoughts , and explains his qualities , as of infinite importance ...
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Page 222 - ... in her days, every man shall eat in safety, under his own vine, what he plants ; and sing the merry songs of peace to all his neighbours: God shall be truly known ; and those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honour, and by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Page 261 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream...
Page 248 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Page 257 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 242 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 73 - 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 151 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 69 - Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride...
Page 84 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Page 330 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...