A select collection of the beauties of Shakspeare [by J. Croft], with some account [by N. Rowe] of the life of Shakspeare1792 - 37 pages |
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... mean rank ; but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , foon diftinguished him , if not as an extraordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst ...
... mean rank ; but his admirable wit , and the natural turn of it to the stage , foon diftinguished him , if not as an extraordinary actor , yet as an excellent writer . His name is printed , as the custom was in those times , amongst ...
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... mean , that his fancy was so loose and extravagant , as to be independent on the rule and government of judg- . ment ; but that what he thought was commonly fo great , fo juftly and rightly conceived in itself , that it wanted little or ...
... mean , that his fancy was so loose and extravagant , as to be independent on the rule and government of judg- . ment ; but that what he thought was commonly fo great , fo juftly and rightly conceived in itself , that it wanted little or ...
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... mean , But Nature makes that mean : fo over that Art Which , you fay , adds to Nature , is an Art That Nature makes . You fee , fweet maid , we marry A gentler fcyon to the wildeft ftock ; And make conceive a bark of bafer kind By buds ...
... mean , But Nature makes that mean : fo over that Art Which , you fay , adds to Nature , is an Art That Nature makes . You fee , fweet maid , we marry A gentler fcyon to the wildeft ftock ; And make conceive a bark of bafer kind By buds ...
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... means are gone , that buy this praise , ' The breath is gone whereof this praise is made . Timon of Athens , A. 2. Sc . 2 . INTEGRITY . There is a kind of character in thy life , That to th ' observer doth thy history Fully unfold ...
... means are gone , that buy this praise , ' The breath is gone whereof this praise is made . Timon of Athens , A. 2. Sc . 2 . INTEGRITY . There is a kind of character in thy life , That to th ' observer doth thy history Fully unfold ...
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... means valiant ; For thou doft fear the foft and tender fork Of a poor worm . Thy best of rest is fleep , And that thou oft provok'ft ; yet grofly fear'st Thy death , which is no more . Thou'rt not thyself ; For thou exift'ft on many a ...
... means valiant ; For thou doft fear the foft and tender fork Of a poor worm . Thy best of rest is fleep , And that thou oft provok'ft ; yet grofly fear'st Thy death , which is no more . Thou'rt not thyself ; For thou exift'ft on many a ...
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Page 21 - 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 23 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Page 35 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 26 - Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 16 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 21 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange -matters: — to beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it...
Page 29 - Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art (Servile to all the skyey influences) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 15 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 25 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 14 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.