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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... mind to wisdom . Now , in this fcience , our " SHAKESPEAR is confeffed to occupy the foremost " place ; whether we confider the amazing fagacity " with which he inveftigates every hidden fpring and " wheel of human action ; or his happy ...
... mind to wisdom . Now , in this fcience , our " SHAKESPEAR is confeffed to occupy the foremost " place ; whether we confider the amazing fagacity " with which he inveftigates every hidden fpring and " wheel of human action ; or his happy ...
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... minds , when " read or recited . 66 If , fays he , a perfon finds , that a performance tranfports not his foul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas . more enlarged than the mere founds of the words ...
... minds , when " read or recited . 66 If , fays he , a perfon finds , that a performance tranfports not his foul , nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas . more enlarged than the mere founds of the words ...
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... mind , as cannot " eafily be worn out or effaced . In a word , you may pronounce that fublime , beautiful , and genuine , which always pleafes , and takes equally with all " forts of men . For when perfons of different hu- " mours ...
... mind , as cannot " eafily be worn out or effaced . In a word , you may pronounce that fublime , beautiful , and genuine , which always pleafes , and takes equally with all " forts of men . For when perfons of different hu- " mours ...
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... mind could ever have been fufceptible of them That all these contingencies fhould unite to his difadvantage , feems to me almost as fingularly unlucky , as that fo many various ( nay contrary ) talents should meet in one man , was happy ...
... mind could ever have been fufceptible of them That all these contingencies fhould unite to his difadvantage , feems to me almost as fingularly unlucky , as that fo many various ( nay contrary ) talents should meet in one man , was happy ...
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... mind to . A bounty very great , and very rare at any time , and almoft equal to that profufe generofity the prefent age has fhewn to French dancers and Italian fingers . What particular habitude or friendships he contracted with private ...
... mind to . A bounty very great , and very rare at any time , and almoft equal to that profufe generofity the prefent age has fhewn to French dancers and Italian fingers . What particular habitude or friendships he contracted with private ...
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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.