The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
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Page xxxii
... kind , could not but be highly pleas'd to see a Genius arise amongst ' em of so pleasurable , fo rich a vein , and fo plentifully capable of furnishing their favourite entertainments . Befides the advantages of his wit , he was in ...
... kind , could not but be highly pleas'd to see a Genius arise amongst ' em of so pleasurable , fo rich a vein , and fo plentifully capable of furnishing their favourite entertainments . Befides the advantages of his wit , he was in ...
Page xxxvi
... kind in Plautus or Terence . Petruchio , in The Taming of the Shrew , is an uncommon piece of humour . The converfation of Benedick and Beatrice , in Much ado about Nothing , and of Rofalind in As you like it , have much wit and ...
... kind in Plautus or Terence . Petruchio , in The Taming of the Shrew , is an uncommon piece of humour . The converfation of Benedick and Beatrice , in Much ado about Nothing , and of Rofalind in As you like it , have much wit and ...
Page xxxvii
... kind of bond given by Antonio , is too much remov'd from the rules of probability : But taking the fact for granted , we muft allow it to be very beautifully written . There is fomething in the friendship of Antonio to Baffanio very ...
... kind of bond given by Antonio , is too much remov'd from the rules of probability : But taking the fact for granted , we muft allow it to be very beautifully written . There is fomething in the friendship of Antonio to Baffanio very ...
Page xxxviii
... kind , as almost any thing we have of his . One may observe , that the Unities are kept here , with an exactnefs un- common to the liberties of his writing : tho ' that was what , I fup- pofe , he valu'd himself least upon , fince his ...
... kind , as almost any thing we have of his . One may observe , that the Unities are kept here , with an exactnefs un- common to the liberties of his writing : tho ' that was what , I fup- pofe , he valu'd himself least upon , fince his ...
Page xxxix
... kind of mere light of nature , and had never been made acquainted with the regularity of those written precepts , fo it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to confider him as a man that liv'd in a state of ...
... kind of mere light of nature , and had never been made acquainted with the regularity of those written precepts , fo it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to confider him as a man that liv'd in a state of ...
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. 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 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 66 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...