The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Volume 1 |
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... present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy , will be at laft bestowed by time . Antiquity , like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that ...
... present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy , will be at laft bestowed by time . Antiquity , like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that ...
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... gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deferves to be ftudied as one of the original xvili PREFACE .
... gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deferves to be ftudied as one of the original xvili PREFACE .
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... present man- ners ; the dress is a little varied , but the body is the fame . Our authour had both matter and form to provide ; for except the characters of Chaucer , to whom I think he is not much indebted , there were no writers in ...
... present man- ners ; the dress is a little varied , but the body is the fame . Our authour had both matter and form to provide ; for except the characters of Chaucer , to whom I think he is not much indebted , there were no writers in ...
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... present popularity and present profit . When his plays had been acted , his hope was at an end ; he folicited no addition of honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to ...
... present popularity and present profit . When his plays had been acted , his hope was at an end ; he folicited no addition of honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to ...
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... Presents fhall come ; William Dethick , Garter Principal King of Arms of England , and William Camden , alias Clarencieulx , King of Arms for the South , Eaft , and Weft Parts of this Realm , fend Greetings . Know ye , that in all ...
... Presents fhall come ; William Dethick , Garter Principal King of Arms of England , and William Camden , alias Clarencieulx , King of Arms for the South , Eaft , and Weft Parts of this Realm , fend Greetings . Know ye , that in all ...
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Page x - 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.
Page 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. 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 xxv - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Page 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page xxii - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Page 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Page 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Page lxxiii - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.