The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers, Volume 1 |
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... exhibiting to the reader at one view all that is known of the personal history of our great bard ; and it can pretend to no other merit . January , 1823 . ALEXR . CHALMERS . SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SHAKSPEARE . WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE was ...
... exhibiting to the reader at one view all that is known of the personal history of our great bard ; and it can pretend to no other merit . January , 1823 . ALEXR . CHALMERS . SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SHAKSPEARE . WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE was ...
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... exhibited only what he saw before him . He knew , that any other passion , as it was regular or exorbitant , was a cause of happiness or calamity . Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved , yet ...
... exhibited only what he saw before him . He knew , that any other passion , as it was regular or exorbitant , was a cause of happiness or calamity . Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved , yet ...
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... exhibiting the real state of sublu- nary 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 ...
... exhibiting the real state of sublu- nary 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 ...
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... exhibited had more skill in pomps or processions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted some visible and discriminated events , as com- ments on the dialogue . He knew how he should most please ; and whether his practice is more ...
... exhibited had more skill in pomps or processions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted some visible and discriminated events , as com- ments on the dialogue . He knew how he should most please ; and whether his practice is more ...
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... exhibited only the superficial appearances of action , related the events , but omitted the causes , and were formed for such as delighted in wonders rather than in truth . Mankind was not then to be studied in the closet ; he that ...
... exhibited only the superficial appearances of action , related the events , but omitted the causes , and were formed for such as delighted in wonders rather than in truth . Mankind was not then to be studied in the closet ; he that ...
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Page 84 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And '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...
Page 91 - What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours : Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together?
Page 47 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 38 - 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 62 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 83 - 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.
Page 22 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion.
Page 32 - A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Page 117 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 23 - Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.