The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Band 1R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... manner , could readily comprehend the meaning . I am far from pretending to say that , with all the advantages I enjoyed , I can hope to remedy the many imperfections which must unavoidably occur , when the mind which collected ...
... manner , could readily comprehend the meaning . I am far from pretending to say that , with all the advantages I enjoyed , I can hope to remedy the many imperfections which must unavoidably occur , when the mind which collected ...
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... manner , beteem in Hamlet , " That he might not beteem the winds of heaven " Visit her face too roughly , " was for a long period supposed to be a corruption , till a passage in Golding's Ovid ascertained that it was a word of our ...
... manner , beteem in Hamlet , " That he might not beteem the winds of heaven " Visit her face too roughly , " was for a long period supposed to be a corruption , till a passage in Golding's Ovid ascertained that it was a word of our ...
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... manner in which they are written , in point of style , while his compositions intended for the publick eye are marked by the highest degree of polish and limæ labor . His letters , which have been quoted by Mr. Gifford , exhibit his ...
... manner in which they are written , in point of style , while his compositions intended for the publick eye are marked by the highest degree of polish and limæ labor . His letters , which have been quoted by Mr. Gifford , exhibit his ...
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... manner ( although his style was remarkable for its elegance , perspicuity , and precision ) , yet he was equal in critical sagacity , and superior , even to his rival , in accurate knowledge and unwearied research ; but he was still ...
... manner ( although his style was remarkable for its elegance , perspicuity , and precision ) , yet he was equal in critical sagacity , and superior , even to his rival , in accurate knowledge and unwearied research ; but he was still ...
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... manner , and as if you were drawn into it by your subject , given us a very interesting History of our Language , during that important period in which , after being refined by Chaucer , it fell into the rudeness of civil confusion ...
... manner , and as if you were drawn into it by your subject , given us a very interesting History of our Language , during that important period in which , after being refined by Chaucer , it fell into the rudeness of civil confusion ...
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Seite 236 - 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.
Seite 476 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Seite 62 - 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.
Seite 449 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of. an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Snfflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Seite 484 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a live-long monument. For whilst to th...
Seite xlvi - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 459 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Seite 473 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.
Seite 64 - Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life.
Seite 454 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress