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Page xxii
He seems indeed so far from proposing to himself any one action for a subject , that the title very often tells you , it is The Life of King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our historians give of Henry ...
He seems indeed so far from proposing to himself any one action for a subject , that the title very often tells you , it is The Life of King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our historians give of Henry ...
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But , as I hinted before , his design seeis most commonly rather to describe those great men in the several fortunes and accidents of their lives , than to take any single great action , and form his work simply upon that .
But , as I hinted before , his design seeis most commonly rather to describe those great men in the several fortunes and accidents of their lives , than to take any single great action , and form his work simply upon that .
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Orestes imbrues his hands in the blood of his own mother ; and that barbarous action is performed , though not immediately upon the stage , yet so near , that the audience hear Clytemnestra crying out to Ægysthus for help , and to her ...
Orestes imbrues his hands in the blood of his own mother ; and that barbarous action is performed , though not immediately upon the stage , yet so near , that the audience hear Clytemnestra crying out to Ægysthus for help , and to her ...
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Upon every other stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady , and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory ...
Upon every other stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady , and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory ...
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The players , who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies , histories , and tragedies , seem not to have distinguished the three kinds by any very exact or definite ideas . An action which ended happily to the ...
The players , who in their edition divided our author's works into comedies , histories , and tragedies , seem not to have distinguished the three kinds by any very exact or definite ideas . An action which ended happily to the ...
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Page 82 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page xi - the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page lxi - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Page xvii - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page cx - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 183 - That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair and wise is she ; The heaven such grace did lend her That she might admired be. 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.
Page xxix - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following ; that is to say : First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 76 - You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir. 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...
Page 127 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 40 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Jan 2007 |
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