Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : even where the agency is fupernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; so that he who contemplates ...
... himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : even where the agency is fupernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; so that he who contemplates ...
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... himself near the end of his work , and in view of his reward , he shortened the labour to fnatch the profit . He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or ...
... himself near the end of his work , and in view of his reward , he shortened the labour to fnatch the profit . He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or ...
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... He no fooner begins to move , than he counteracts himself ; and terror and pity , as they are rifing in the mind , are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity . A quibble A quibble is to Shakespeare , what luminous va pours PREFACE .
... He no fooner begins to move , than he counteracts himself ; and terror and pity , as they are rifing in the mind , are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity . A quibble A quibble is to Shakespeare , what luminous va pours PREFACE .
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... himself to fit in the theatre , while ambaffadors go and return between diftant kings , while armies are levied and towns befieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw courting his mistress , shall lament the ...
... himself to fit in the theatre , while ambaffadors go and return between diftant kings , while armies are levied and towns befieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw courting his mistress , shall lament the ...
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... himself at Alexandria , and be- lieves 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 . He that can take the ftage at one ...
... himself at Alexandria , and be- lieves 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 . He that can take the ftage at one ...
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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...