Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and speak by the influence of thofe general paffions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in ...
... fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and speak by the influence of thofe general paffions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in ...
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... fuch as he has affigned ; and it may be faid , that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed . This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare ...
... fuch as he has affigned ; and it may be faid , that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed . This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare ...
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... fuch fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : he therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In ...
... fuch fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : he therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In ...
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... fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the hiftory of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agincourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
... fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the hiftory of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agincourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
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... fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch ...
... fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch ...
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Page 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Page 23 - 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 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...