The Beauties of Shakespear: Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes, and Similar Passages, from Ancient and Modern Authors. By William Dodd, ... In Three VolumesJ. Macgowan, 1780 |
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... Such of this author's pieces as he boafts to be grounded on antiquity and folid learning , and to lay hold on removed myfteries * , have neither the majefty of S's ferious fables , nor the pleafing fport- fulness and poetical ...
... Such of this author's pieces as he boafts to be grounded on antiquity and folid learning , and to lay hold on removed myfteries * , have neither the majefty of S's ferious fables , nor the pleafing fport- fulness and poetical ...
Page 28
... fuller manner of expreffing the matter in hand . " Such interrupted fentences , " St. obferves justly , not uncommon to S .: he fometimes begins a fentence , and 66 are before An ufurping Subftitute compared to Ivy . That ( 3 [ 28 ]
... fuller manner of expreffing the matter in hand . " Such interrupted fentences , " St. obferves justly , not uncommon to S .: he fometimes begins a fentence , and 66 are before An ufurping Subftitute compared to Ivy . That ( 3 [ 28 ]
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... such an expression of it , folly . • : It is impertinent to be for ever pointing out beauties , which the reader of tafte will of courfe diftinguish for him- felf ; and yet I cannot quit this fcene without observing that it is fuperior ...
... such an expression of it , folly . • : It is impertinent to be for ever pointing out beauties , which the reader of tafte will of courfe diftinguish for him- felf ; and yet I cannot quit this fcene without observing that it is fuperior ...
Page 60
... Such ftrains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite fet free His half - regain'd Euridice . If to melancholy , L ' Allegro . Or bid the foul of Orpheus fing Such notes as , warbled to the string , Drew iron tears down ...
... Such ftrains as would have won the ear Of Pluto , to have quite fet free His half - regain'd Euridice . If to melancholy , L ' Allegro . Or bid the foul of Orpheus fing Such notes as , warbled to the string , Drew iron tears down ...
Page 78
... Such however is the reading of the old copy , though the v in pavin being reverfed , the modern editors have been con tent to read , -And a post measure painim . It is a fine stroke of nature to make the drunken Sir Toby rail at ...
... Such however is the reading of the old copy , though the v in pavin being reverfed , the modern editors have been con tent to read , -And a post measure painim . It is a fine stroke of nature to make the drunken Sir Toby rail at ...
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Page 212 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 205 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 217 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres...
Page 209 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 233 - No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 72 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 60 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 226 - That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 36 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 236 - Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence. What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it, when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay; Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All may be well.