Shakspere: His Times and ContemporariesG. Kershaw and son, 1852 - 224 pages |
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... Nature led him by the hand , Instructed him in all she knew , And gave him absolute command " DAVID GARRICK . PRE - EMINENT amongst all the writers in our English literature , and towering over the classic authors of anti- quity , like ...
... Nature led him by the hand , Instructed him in all she knew , And gave him absolute command " DAVID GARRICK . PRE - EMINENT amongst all the writers in our English literature , and towering over the classic authors of anti- quity , like ...
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... Nature ; to show Virtue her own image , Scorn her own feature , and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure . " 99 To become a great dramatist requires genius of the highest order , and a knowledge of man and history ...
... Nature ; to show Virtue her own image , Scorn her own feature , and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure . " 99 To become a great dramatist requires genius of the highest order , and a knowledge of man and history ...
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... nature no scope . " What king , " says Ralph Waldo Emerson , " has he not taught state , as Talma taught Napoleon ? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy ? What lover has he not outloved ? What sage has he not outseen ...
... nature no scope . " What king , " says Ralph Waldo Emerson , " has he not taught state , as Talma taught Napoleon ? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy ? What lover has he not outloved ? What sage has he not outseen ...
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... Nature , to outdo the life ; O , could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass , as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot , reader , look Not on his picture , but his ...
... Nature , to outdo the life ; O , could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass , as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot , reader , look Not on his picture , but his ...
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... nature , at all times , and under all circumstances possible or imaginable . He has not merely laboured to delineate a very good or a very bad character , but such personages as do really exist ; virtue and vice joined together in the ...
... nature , at all times , and under all circumstances possible or imaginable . He has not merely laboured to delineate a very good or a very bad character , but such personages as do really exist ; virtue and vice joined together in the ...
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Page 11 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 15 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 87 - Lawn as white as driven snow ; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Page 165 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Page 129 - That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 213 - King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Page 66 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 171 - I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden.
Page 139 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 21 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.