Historical and critical matter The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorJ. Nichols, 1811 |
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... that as we owe every thing to him , he owes something to us ; that , if much of his praise is paid by perception and judgment , much is like- wise given by custom and veneration . We fix our 24 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... that as we owe every thing to him , he owes something to us ; that , if much of his praise is paid by perception and judgment , much is like- wise given by custom and veneration . We fix our 24 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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... thing for others to do , that he passed the latter part of his life in a state of hostility with verbal criticism . I have retained all his notes , that no fragment of so great a writer may be lost ; his preface , valuable alike for ...
... thing for others to do , that he passed the latter part of his life in a state of hostility with verbal criticism . I have retained all his notes , that no fragment of so great a writer may be lost ; his preface , valuable alike for ...
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... things make mean men proud , and vanity catches small occasions ; or that all contrariety of opinion , even in those ... thing better to propose . After the labours of all the editors , I found many passages which appeared to me likely ...
... things make mean men proud , and vanity catches small occasions ; or that all contrariety of opinion , even in those ... thing better to propose . After the labours of all the editors , I found many passages which appeared to me likely ...
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... thing to his illus- tration , communicate their discoveries , and time produces what had eluded diligence . To time I have been obliged to resign many passages , which , though I did not understand them , will perhaps here- after be ...
... thing to his illus- tration , communicate their discoveries , and time produces what had eluded diligence . To time I have been obliged to resign many passages , which , though I did not understand them , will perhaps here- after be ...
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... them not laboriously , but luckily when he describes any thing , you more than see it , you feel it too . Those , who accuse him to have wanted learning , give him the greater commendation ; he was 40 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... them not laboriously , but luckily when he describes any thing , you more than see it , you feel it too . Those , who accuse him to have wanted learning , give him the greater commendation ; he was 40 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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Page 37 - 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 64 - 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 88 - 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 172 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing, Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her let us garlands bring.
Page 142 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 6 - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
Page 7 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered : this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 12 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Page 3 - Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would probably be such as he has assigned; and it may be said that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed.
Page 3 - His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of critics, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal.