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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... probably have no great weight on either fide , yet it may not feem fair to fupprefs them : take them therefore as their authors occur to me , and we will afterward proceed to particulars . The teftimony of Ben . ftands foremoft ; and ...
... probably have no great weight on either fide , yet it may not feem fair to fupprefs them : take them therefore as their authors occur to me , and we will afterward proceed to particulars . The teftimony of Ben . ftands foremoft ; and ...
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... probably all he knew of the matter was from madam Ifabella in the Heptameron of Whetstone . Arifto . is continually quoted for the fable of Much ado about nothing ; but I fufpect our poet to have been satisfied with the Geneura of ...
... probably all he knew of the matter was from madam Ifabella in the Heptameron of Whetstone . Arifto . is continually quoted for the fable of Much ado about nothing ; but I fufpect our poet to have been satisfied with the Geneura of ...
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... probably his earliest attempt in the drama . I know , that another of thefe difcarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called fo ; but moft certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed ...
... probably his earliest attempt in the drama . I know , that another of thefe difcarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called fo ; but moft certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed ...
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... probably misled by his predeceffor , Speght , was determined , Procruftes - like , to force every line in the Canterbury Tales to the fame standard : but a precife number of Our excellent friend Mr. Hurd hath borne a noble testimony D 4 ...
... probably misled by his predeceffor , Speght , was determined , Procruftes - like , to force every line in the Canterbury Tales to the fame standard : but a precife number of Our excellent friend Mr. Hurd hath borne a noble testimony D 4 ...
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... probably for a play as a poem : but modern criticks may be furprifed perhaps at the complaint of John Hall , that " certayne chapters of the Proverbes , tranflated by him into English metre , 1550 , had before been untruely entituled to ...
... probably for a play as a poem : but modern criticks may be furprifed perhaps at the complaint of John Hall , that " certayne chapters of the Proverbes , tranflated by him into English metre , 1550 , had before been untruely entituled to ...
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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...