The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
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... supposed to have been a time of stateliness , formality , and reserve , yet perhaps the relaxations of that se verity were not very elegant . There must , however , have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a ...
... supposed to have been a time of stateliness , formality , and reserve , yet perhaps the relaxations of that se verity were not very elegant . There must , however , have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a ...
Page lix
... supposed necessity of making the drama credible . The criticks hold it impossible , that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the theatre ...
... supposed necessity of making the drama credible . The criticks hold it impossible , that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the theatre ...
Page lxii
... supposed to in- tervene ? Time is , of all modes of existence , most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours . In contem + plation we easily contract the time of real actions , Ixi ...
... supposed to in- tervene ? Time is , of all modes of existence , most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours . In contem + plation we easily contract the time of real actions , Ixi ...
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... supposed ca pable to give us shade , or the fountains coolness ; but we consider , how we should be pleased with such fountains playing beside us , and such woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history JOHNSON'S PREFACE ...
... supposed ca pable to give us shade , or the fountains coolness ; but we consider , how we should be pleased with such fountains playing beside us , and such woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history JOHNSON'S PREFACE ...
Page lxiv
... supposed to be real , and it follows , that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass , and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader of a narra- tive ...
... supposed to be real , and it follows , that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass , and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader of a narra- tive ...
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Page 80 - 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 ix - 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 lix - 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 xv - 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 cviii - 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 181 - 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 xxvii - 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 74 - 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 125 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 38 - 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.