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Page 27
For this purpose he makes choice of a hero , well known from the British
chronicles , and as the story had a particular relation to the king then reigning , '
twas an interesting story ; and though full of machinery , yet ' probable , because
the ...
For this purpose he makes choice of a hero , well known from the British
chronicles , and as the story had a particular relation to the king then reigning , '
twas an interesting story ; and though full of machinery , yet ' probable , because
the ...
Page 30
Who does not see that had Shakespeare broken off the story here , it would have
been incomplete ? For his design being to shew the effects of ambition , and
having made choice of one passion , of one hero , he is to carry it throughout in
all ...
Who does not see that had Shakespeare broken off the story here , it would have
been incomplete ? For his design being to shew the effects of ambition , and
having made choice of one passion , of one hero , he is to carry it throughout in
all ...
Page 185
The story is taken from Plutarcḥ in his life of Antony . Aéqwn Tow : Túzemu auri ,
λαμπροάτην έσαν και μεχίσης , υπό της Καίσαρος αμαυgšofan . The Latin
translator is wrong here , Tuxn is his Genius , not chance or fortune γαρ σος
Δαίμων τον ...
The story is taken from Plutarcḥ in his life of Antony . Aéqwn Tow : Túzemu auri ,
λαμπροάτην έσαν και μεχίσης , υπό της Καίσαρος αμαυgšofan . The Latin
translator is wrong here , Tuxn is his Genius , not chance or fortune γαρ σος
Δαίμων τον ...
Page 269
This story is alluded to in the TwelfthNight , Ac V. Nor did the allusion escape the
notice of Mr. Theobald . “ Duke . Why should I not , had I the heart to do't , « Like
the Egyptian thief , at point of death “ Kill what I love ? A savage jealousie “ That ...
This story is alluded to in the TwelfthNight , Ac V. Nor did the allusion escape the
notice of Mr. Theobald . “ Duke . Why should I not , had I the heart to do't , « Like
the Egyptian thief , at point of death “ Kill what I love ? A savage jealousie “ That ...
Page 425
This story is alluded to in the TwelfthNight , Act V. Nor did the allusion escape the
notice of Mr. Theobald . « Duke . Why should I not , had I the heart “ to do't , “ Like
the Egyptian thief , at point of death “ Kill what I love ? A savage jealousie ...
This story is alluded to in the TwelfthNight , Act V. Nor did the allusion escape the
notice of Mr. Theobald . « Duke . Why should I not , had I the heart “ to do't , “ Like
the Egyptian thief , at point of death “ Kill what I love ? A savage jealousie ...
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Page 266 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 66 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 120 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
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Page xxxix - ... a rib Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears, More to the part sinister, from me drawn ; Well if thrown out, as supernumerary To my just number found. O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 229 - As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Critical Observations on Shakespeare |
| Author | John Upton |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | G. Hawkins, 1748 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 415 pages |
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