The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.]. |
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Page xxv
... believe , by finding the fame author openly express his contempt of it in the Induction to Bartho- lomer fair , in the year 1614 , when Shakespear was yet living . And there is no better authority for these latter fort , than for the ...
... believe , by finding the fame author openly express his contempt of it in the Induction to Bartho- lomer fair , in the year 1614 , when Shakespear was yet living . And there is no better authority for these latter fort , than for the ...
Page xxviii
... believe we are better pleafed with thofe thoughts , altogether new and uncommon , which his own imagination fup- plied him so abundantly with , than if he had given us the most beautiful paffages out of the Greek and Latin poets , and ...
... believe we are better pleafed with thofe thoughts , altogether new and uncommon , which his own imagination fup- plied him so abundantly with , than if he had given us the most beautiful paffages out of the Greek and Latin poets , and ...
Page xxxii
... believe it must be allowed , that what Nature gave the latter , was more than a balance for what books had given the former ; and the judgment of a great man upon this occafion was , I think , very juft and proper . In a converfation ...
... believe it must be allowed , that what Nature gave the latter , was more than a balance for what books had given the former ; and the judgment of a great man upon this occafion was , I think , very juft and proper . In a converfation ...
Page xxxiv
... believe it may be as well ex- preffed by what Horace fays of the first Romans , who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models , ( or indeed tranf- lated them ) , in his epiftle to Auguftus . * If ever there was fuch a line written by ...
... believe it may be as well ex- preffed by what Horace fays of the first Romans , who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models , ( or indeed tranf- lated them ) , in his epiftle to Auguftus . * If ever there was fuch a line written by ...
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... believe we may challenge all that went before him , and all that have fucceeded him , to equal the beauties of this fpeech . Mr. Dedd . + I don't remember ( fays Mr. Dodd ) ever to have met with a more excellent and picturefque ...
... believe we may challenge all that went before him , and all that have fucceeded him , to equal the beauties of this fpeech . Mr. Dedd . + I don't remember ( fays Mr. Dodd ) ever to have met with a more excellent and picturefque ...
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Page 70 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 31 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 37 - 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 165 - 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 110 - 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 110 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. 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...
Page 16 - 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 121 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 265 - Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 278 - Alas ! alas ! 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.