Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident ...
... fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident ...
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... fuch as he has affigned ; and it may be faid , that he has not only fhewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare , that ...
... fuch as he has affigned ; and it may be faid , that he has not only fhewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare , that ...
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... fuch fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : he therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In ...
... fuch fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : he therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In ...
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... fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agincourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
... fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agincourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
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... fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch ...
... fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch ...
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Page 292 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 98 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'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 63 - 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 19 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Page 53 - Perhaps the lightness of the matter may conduce to the vehemence of the agency; when the truth to be investigated is so near to inexistence, as to escape attention, its bulk is to be enlarged by rage and exclamation: That to which all would be indifferent in its original state, may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it.
Page 215 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 27 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 11 - Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy; it required only a calamitous conclusion, with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied, whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress.
Page 229 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 4 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.