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Page 59
The story hangs together as in a heroic poem . The fable is one in The Tempest ,
viz . the restoration of Prospero to the dukedom of Milan : and the poem haftens
into the midst of things , presenting the usurping duke thipwrecked on the ...
The story hangs together as in a heroic poem . The fable is one in The Tempest ,
viz . the restoration of Prospero to the dukedom of Milan : and the poem haftens
into the midst of things , presenting the usurping duke thipwrecked on the ...
Page 60
... it becomes less difficult to see into the art and design of Shakespeare , in
forming and planing his dramatic poems . ... himfelf obliged to regard ; but not at
all the unities of time and place ; no more , than if he were writing an epic poem .
... it becomes less difficult to see into the art and design of Shakespeare , in
forming and planing his dramatic poems . ... himfelf obliged to regard ; but not at
all the unities of time and place ; no more , than if he were writing an epic poem .
Page 84
Our poets therefore are to endeavour to get a view of virtue in her own shape ,
and admire her lovely form ; and from this ... In a good poem both judgment and
fancy are “ required : but the fancy must be more eminent ; because they please
for ...
Our poets therefore are to endeavour to get a view of virtue in her own shape ,
and admire her lovely form ; and from this ... In a good poem both judgment and
fancy are “ required : but the fancy must be more eminent ; because they please
for ...
Page 144
But these revelling idolaters will soon pull an old house on their and God will
send his people a deliverer . How would it have rejoiced the heart of the . heads ;
Milton plan'd his poem long before he was blind , and had written many
passages .
But these revelling idolaters will soon pull an old house on their and God will
send his people a deliverer . How would it have rejoiced the heart of the . heads ;
Milton plan'd his poem long before he was blind , and had written many
passages .
Page xii
The Doric dialect changed in his poems , 282 : Thespis , the inventor of stage
plays , 100 . TIBULLUS , corrected , 100 , n . Explained , 361. Affected the
alliteration , 409 . Touch , touches , 306 . Tragedy , its rise and progress , B. I.
Sect . XIV .
The Doric dialect changed in his poems , 282 : Thespis , the inventor of stage
plays , 100 . TIBULLUS , corrected , 100 , n . Explained , 361. Affected the
alliteration , 409 . Touch , touches , 306 . Tragedy , its rise and progress , B. I.
Sect . XIV .
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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
Page xlvi - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 134 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 223 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 142 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
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.
Page lvi - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
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| 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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