The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens..H. Baldwin, 1793 |
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... English writers ( for to own the truth , I was once idle enough to collect fuch , ) which fhall carry with them at leaft an equal degree of fimilarity . But there can be no occafion of wafting any future time in this department : the ...
... English writers ( for to own the truth , I was once idle enough to collect fuch , ) which fhall carry with them at leaft an equal degree of fimilarity . But there can be no occafion of wafting any future time in this department : the ...
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... English Poefie , 1589 , quotes fome one of a " reafon- able good facilitie in tranflation , who finding cer- taine of Anacreon's Odes very well tranflated by Ronfard the French poet - comes our minion , and tranflates the fame out of ...
... English Poefie , 1589 , quotes fome one of a " reafon- able good facilitie in tranflation , who finding cer- taine of Anacreon's Odes very well tranflated by Ronfard the French poet - comes our minion , and tranflates the fame out of ...
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... English Poetry , hath fhewn our author to have been fometimes contented with a legendary ballad . The story of the mijanthrope is told in almost every collection of the time ; and particularly in two books , with which Shakspeare was ...
... English Poetry , hath fhewn our author to have been fometimes contented with a legendary ballad . The story of the mijanthrope is told in almost every collection of the time ; and particularly in two books , with which Shakspeare was ...
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... English bexameter , " and for a while every one would be halting on Roman feet ; but the ridicule of our fellow - collegian Hall , in one of his Satires , and the reasoning of Daniel , in his Defence of Rhyme against Campion , presently ...
... English bexameter , " and for a while every one would be halting on Roman feet ; but the ridicule of our fellow - collegian Hall , in one of his Satires , and the reasoning of Daniel , in his Defence of Rhyme against Campion , presently ...
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... English Tragedy , that the portrait of Macbeth's wife is copied from Buchanan , " whose fpirit , as well as words , is tranflated into the play of Shakspeare : and it had fignified nothing to have pored only on Holinfhed for facts ...
... English Tragedy , that the portrait of Macbeth's wife is copied from Buchanan , " whose fpirit , as well as words , is tranflated into the play of Shakspeare : and it had fignified nothing to have pored only on Holinfhed for facts ...
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Page 506 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much.
Page 215 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 506 - And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
Page 176 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 315 - Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make Essayes at Dramatique Poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his playes tooke well. He was a handsome well shap't man, very good company, and of a very readie and pleasant smooth witt.
Page 182 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 506 - 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 78 - How would it haue ioyed braue Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least (at seuerall times) who, in the Tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 530 - 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...
Page 137 - In the city of Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations) that, when players of enterludes come to...