The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fusell, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, Band 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1805 |
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... drama of which he had set the example , and may be considered as the founder . If we wonder why we know so much less of Shakspeare than of his contemporaries , let us recollect that his genius , however highly and justly we now rate it ...
... drama of which he had set the example , and may be considered as the founder . If we wonder why we know so much less of Shakspeare than of his contemporaries , let us recollect that his genius , however highly and justly we now rate it ...
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... drama , " in which almost every original beauty is either " aukwardly disguised , or arbitrarily omitted . " * In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become " a little obsolete . " In the beginning of the last ...
... drama , " in which almost every original beauty is either " aukwardly disguised , or arbitrarily omitted . " * In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become " a little obsolete . " In the beginning of the last ...
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... drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up be- fore him , may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies , by reading human sentiments in human language ...
... drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up be- fore him , may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies , by reading human sentiments in human language ...
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... end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in 6 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in 6 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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... the history of Richard the Second . But a history might be continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakspeare's mode DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 7.
... the history of Richard the Second . But a history might be continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakspeare's mode DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 7.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 88 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Seite 48 - 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.
Seite 171 - 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.
Seite 6 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Seite 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...
Seite 23 - would it had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill...
Seite 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.
Seite 87 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance...
Seite 79 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack...
Seite 85 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.