The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, : with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1844 |
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Page lvii
... criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best , SHAK . 1 . e To works ...
... criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best , SHAK . 1 . e To works ...
Page lxiv
... criticism will be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature . The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction ...
... criticism will be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature . The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction ...
Page lxv
... criticism of that age was satisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress . History was a series of actions , with no other than chrono- logical succession , independent on each other , and without any tendency to ...
... criticism of that age was satisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress . History was a series of actions , with no other than chrono- logical succession , independent on each other , and without any tendency to ...
Page lxxv
... rules merely positive become the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare , and such censures are suitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire : - Non usque adeo permiscuit imis Longus summa dies , ut DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . lxxv.
... rules merely positive become the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare , and such censures are suitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire : - Non usque adeo permiscuit imis Longus summa dies , ut DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . lxxv.
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... criticism , he rejected whatever he disliked , and thought more of amputation than of cure . I know not why he is commended by Dr. Warburton for distinguishing the genuine from the spurious plays . In this choice he exerted no judgment ...
... criticism , he rejected whatever he disliked , and thought more of amputation than of cure . I know not why he is commended by Dr. Warburton for distinguishing the genuine from the spurious plays . In this choice he exerted no judgment ...
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Page 44 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 83 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch*. When owls do cry, '} \ On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page lx - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated and...
Page cvi - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page li - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 5 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O ! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
Page 110 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 82 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page lxxiii - The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players.
Page cix - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book Those Delphic lines with deep impression took, Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble with too much conceiving, And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.