Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 415 pages |
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Page xiv
... prefent distress , by re- calling in the minds of the Romans the victories of their murdered heroe . - There is a very small alte- ration I would propofe " And in this mantle , " & c . " the action and emphafis is highly improved by ...
... prefent distress , by re- calling in the minds of the Romans the victories of their murdered heroe . - There is a very small alte- ration I would propofe " And in this mantle , " & c . " the action and emphafis is highly improved by ...
Page xvii
... prefent I shall content myfelf with the following in King Lear , A & t III . Where the Fool thus speaks , " I'll speak a prophecy OR ERE Igo . " When Priests are more in words than mat- " ter , & c . " OR ERE I go is not English , and ...
... prefent I shall content myfelf with the following in King Lear , A & t III . Where the Fool thus speaks , " I'll speak a prophecy OR ERE Igo . " When Priests are more in words than mat- " ter , & c . " OR ERE I go is not English , and ...
Page xxxviii
... prefent profeffion , never counterfeits , till be lays bold upon a debtor , and fays , be refts him , for then he brings him into all manner of " unreft . A kind of little kings we are , bearing " the diminutive of a mace , made like a ...
... prefent profeffion , never counterfeits , till be lays bold upon a debtor , and fays , be refts him , for then he brings him into all manner of " unreft . A kind of little kings we are , bearing " the diminutive of a mace , made like a ...
Page lviii
... as well as by other poets . -But in the midst of fuch a stable of filth I am now immerged , that Hercules himself would defpair of cleansing . I • fball fhall leave it therefore at prefent : and the reader lviii PREFACE .
... as well as by other poets . -But in the midst of fuch a stable of filth I am now immerged , that Hercules himself would defpair of cleansing . I • fball fhall leave it therefore at prefent : and the reader lviii PREFACE .
Page lix
John Upton. fhall leave it therefore at prefent : and the reader will think it , I believe , high time for us to go and bury the miferable remains of this our critic and commentator . ONE word more to the reader before I conclude this ...
John Upton. fhall leave it therefore at prefent : and the reader will think it , I believe , high time for us to go and bury the miferable remains of this our critic and commentator . ONE word more to the reader before I conclude this ...
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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.