The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: 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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Pagina 117
... give rife to the contrary report . I hope that it may be with parties , both in wit and state , as with those monsters de- scribed by the poets ; and that their heads at least may have fomething human , though their bodies and tails are ...
... give rife to the contrary report . I hope that it may be with parties , both in wit and state , as with those monsters de- scribed by the poets ; and that their heads at least may have fomething human , though their bodies and tails are ...
Pagina 121
... give strays to the lord of the manor : a mistake which ( one may also obferve ) it was not for the intereft of the house to remove . Yet the players themselves , Heminges and Con- dell , afterwards did Shakespeare the juftice to reject ...
... give strays to the lord of the manor : a mistake which ( one may also obferve ) it was not for the intereft of the house to remove . Yet the players themselves , Heminges and Con- dell , afterwards did Shakespeare the juftice to reject ...
Pagina 124
... give the proper entertainment . And as in great piles of building , fome parts are often fi- nished up to hit the tafte of the connoiffeur ; others more ncg- ligently put together , to ftrike the fancy of a common and unlearned beholder ...
... give the proper entertainment . And as in great piles of building , fome parts are often fi- nished up to hit the tafte of the connoiffeur ; others more ncg- ligently put together , to ftrike the fancy of a common and unlearned beholder ...
Pagina 125
... give the fame creft : but Shakespeare's clowns and fops come all of a different houfe : they are no farther allied to one another than as man to man , members of the fame fpecies ; but as different in features and lineaments of ...
... give the fame creft : but Shakespeare's clowns and fops come all of a different houfe : they are no farther allied to one another than as man to man , members of the fame fpecies ; but as different in features and lineaments of ...
Pagina 139
... gives us his corrections as the original text of the author ; whereas the chief turn of his criticifm is plainly to ... give the true reading , though fometimes not to the advantage of my author , that I have been ridiculoufly ridiculed ...
... gives us his corrections as the original text of the author ; whereas the chief turn of his criticifm is plainly to ... give the true reading , though fometimes not to the advantage of my author , that I have been ridiculoufly ridiculed ...
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Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of ... William Shakespeare Vizualizare completă - 1778 |
Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of ... William Shakespeare Vizualizare completă - 1778 |
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Pagina 218 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the muses still were in their prime When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears ; or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Pagina 65 - 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.
Pagina 100 - 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...
Pagina 16 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Pagina 294 - 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.
Pagina 4 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Pagina 6 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Pagina 40 - ... profit. When his plays had been acted, his hope was at an end ; he solicited no addition of honour from the reader.
Pagina 64 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Pagina 216 - 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...