The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 6R. Cadell, 1834 |
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... Shakspeare , the most part of the English monarchs had lived and died upon the stage ; and it is well- known , that almost all his historical plays were new written by him , upon the plan of old dramatic chro- nicles which already ...
... Shakspeare , the most part of the English monarchs had lived and died upon the stage ; and it is well- known , that almost all his historical plays were new written by him , upon the plan of old dramatic chro- nicles which already ...
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... Shakspeare , this personage was permitted to fill up his part with extemporary jesting , not only on the performers , but with the audience . This irregularity , with others , seems to have been borrowed by the Eng- 280 ESSAY ON THE DRAMA ,
... Shakspeare , this personage was permitted to fill up his part with extemporary jesting , not only on the performers , but with the audience . This irregularity , with others , seems to have been borrowed by the Eng- 280 ESSAY ON THE DRAMA ,
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... Shakspeare , but remains unexplained by the commentators . Such comedies , it is evident , could require no higher merit in the composer than the imagining and sketching a few comic situations ; the dialogue and diction was all ...
... Shakspeare , but remains unexplained by the commentators . Such comedies , it is evident , could require no higher merit in the composer than the imagining and sketching a few comic situations ; the dialogue and diction was all ...
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... Shakspeare gives to our own . Cardinal Richelieu , who had succeeded in esta- blishing upon a broad basis the absolute power of the French monarch , was not insensible to the graces and ornaments which the throne derived from being ...
... Shakspeare gives to our own . Cardinal Richelieu , who had succeeded in esta- blishing upon a broad basis the absolute power of the French monarch , was not insensible to the graces and ornaments which the throne derived from being ...
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... Shakspeare's in the opinion of the best judges . It might perhaps be improved in acting , by performing the three first acts as a play , and the fourth and fifth as an after- piece . Yet , even as it is now acted , who is it that ...
... Shakspeare's in the opinion of the best judges . It might perhaps be improved in acting , by performing the three first acts as a play , and the fourth and fifth as an after- piece . Yet , even as it is now acted , who is it that ...
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Էջ 343 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Էջ 343 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Էջ 350 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Էջ 279 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Էջ 307 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Էջ 361 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Էջ 282 - For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Էջ 276 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Էջ 307 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Էջ 54 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman...