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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... Labor's Lost 1594 1592 1591 10. Merchant of Venice 1594 1597 1597 11. Midsummer Night's Dream 1594 1598 1593 12. Taming of the Shrew 1596 1598 1594 13. Romeo and Juliet 1596 1592 1593 14. King John 1596 1598 1598 15. Henry IV . Part 1 ...
... Labor's Lost 1594 1592 1591 10. Merchant of Venice 1594 1597 1597 11. Midsummer Night's Dream 1594 1598 1593 12. Taming of the Shrew 1596 1598 1594 13. Romeo and Juliet 1596 1592 1593 14. King John 1596 1598 1598 15. Henry IV . Part 1 ...
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... labor , what no labor can improve . In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comic ; but in comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragic scenes there ...
... labor , what no labor can improve . In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comic ; but in comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragic scenes there ...
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... labor to snatch the profit . He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them , and his cata- strophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented . He had no regard to distinction of time or place , but ...
... labor to snatch the profit . He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them , and his cata- strophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented . He had no regard to distinction of time or place , but ...
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... labor is more . The effusions of passion , which exi- gence forces out , are for the most part striking and energetic ; but whenever he solicits his invention , or strains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumor , meanness ...
... labor is more . The effusions of passion , which exi- gence forces out , are for the most part striking and energetic ; but whenever he solicits his invention , or strains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumor , meanness ...
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... willing to credit their encomiasts , and to spare the labor of contending with themselves . It does not appear that Shakspeare thought his works worthy of posterity , that he levied any ideal tribute lxxxvi DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... willing to credit their encomiasts , and to spare the labor of contending with themselves . It does not appear that Shakspeare thought his works worthy of posterity , that he levied any ideal tribute lxxxvi DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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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.