The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1G. Kearsley [Printed, 1806 |
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... of genius , nothing can be styled excellent till it has been compared with other works of the same kind . De- monstration immediately displays its power , and has • nothing to hope or fear from the flux of xxxviii JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... of genius , nothing can be styled excellent till it has been compared with other works of the same kind . De- monstration immediately displays its power , and has • nothing to hope or fear from the flux of xxxviii JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
Page xxxix
... may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test JOHNSON'S PREFACE . xxxix.
... may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test JOHNSON'S PREFACE . xxxix.
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... what peculiarities of ex- cellence Shakspeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but Particular just representations of general nature . manners can be JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... what peculiarities of ex- cellence Shakspeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but Particular just representations of general nature . manners can be JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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... is commonly a species . It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and do- mestic wisdom JOHNSON'S PREFACE . xli.
... is commonly a species . It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and do- mestic wisdom JOHNSON'S PREFACE . xli.
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... dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is pursued with so much ease and simplicity , that it seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction xlii JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is pursued with so much ease and simplicity , that it seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction xlii JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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Page 80 - gainst my fury • Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, • And they shall be themselves.
Page ix - the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page lix - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Page xv - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page cviii - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 181 - That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair and wise is she ; The heaven such grace did lend her That she might admired be. Is she kind as she is fair ? for beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling ; To her let us garlands bring.
Page xxvii - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent, in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following ; that is to say : First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 74 - You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack...
Page 125 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 38 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.