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... to shew something upon the subject at least as well written by Shakspeare . The latter part of his life was spent , as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be , in ease , retiresame ment , and the conversation of his friends .
... to shew something upon the subject at least as well written by Shakspeare . The latter part of his life was spent , as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be , in ease , retiresame ment , and the conversation of his friends .
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His magic has something in it very solemn , and very poetical ; and that extravagant character of Caliban is mighty well sustained , shews a wonderful invention in the author , who could strike out ...
His magic has something in it very solemn , and very poetical ; and that extravagant character of Caliban is mighty well sustained , shews a wonderful invention in the author , who could strike out ...
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... house for that which the senate - house would certainly have afforded him . He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious JOHNSON'S PREFACE . xly.
... house for that which the senate - house would certainly have afforded him . He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious JOHNSON'S PREFACE . xly.
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to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious , but despicable ; he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities , knowing that kings love wine like other men , and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings .
to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious , but despicable ; he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities , knowing that kings love wine like other men , and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings .
Page liii
I shall shew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or superstitious veneration . No question can be more innocently discussed than a dead poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to ...
I shall shew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or superstitious veneration . No question can be more innocently discussed than a dead poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to ...
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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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