The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added NotesT. Longman, 1793 |
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... former usage , no head of Shakspeare is prefixed to the present edition of his Plays . The undisguised fact is this . The only portrait of him that even pre- tends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or some other ...
... former usage , no head of Shakspeare is prefixed to the present edition of his Plays . The undisguised fact is this . The only portrait of him that even pre- tends to authenticity , by means of injudicious cleaning , or some other ...
Էջ iii
... former of these tales has no better foundation than the va- nity of our degener Neoptolemus , ( see Vol . II . p . 428. ) and the latter originates from modern conjecture . The present age will probably allow the vintner's ivy to Sir ...
... former of these tales has no better foundation than the va- nity of our degener Neoptolemus , ( see Vol . II . p . 428. ) and the latter originates from modern conjecture . The present age will probably allow the vintner's ivy to Sir ...
Էջ vi
... former plate of our author , which was copied from Martin Droeshout's in the title - page to the folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does so " abomin- able an imitation of humanity " deserve to be re- stored . The smaller head , prefixed to ...
... former plate of our author , which was copied from Martin Droeshout's in the title - page to the folio 1623 , is worn out ; nor does so " abomin- able an imitation of humanity " deserve to be re- stored . The smaller head , prefixed to ...
Էջ viii
... former track of reading for the illustration of their author , and cannot help observing that those who receive the benefit of explanatory extracts from ancient writers , little know at what expence of time and labour such atoms of ...
... former track of reading for the illustration of their author , and cannot help observing that those who receive the benefit of explanatory extracts from ancient writers , little know at what expence of time and labour such atoms of ...
Էջ ix
... former edition of Shakspeare are here inserted , it has been thought necessary that as much of his Preface * as was designed to intro duce them , should accompany their second ap- pearance . Any formal recommendation of them is needless ...
... former edition of Shakspeare are here inserted , it has been thought necessary that as much of his Preface * as was designed to intro duce them , should accompany their second ap- pearance . Any formal recommendation of them is needless ...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ... William Shakespeare Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1793 |
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ... William Shakespeare Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1793 |
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Էջ 186 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Էջ 221 - 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.
Էջ 179 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Էջ 221 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Էջ 47 - They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
Էջ 176 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Էջ 220 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation.
Էջ 192 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Էջ 358 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Էջ 184 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.