Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. DrakeNathan Drake 1828 |
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... Plays ; whereas the impression of 1663 does not include them , but ends with the play of Cymbeline , both in the catalogue prefixed , and in the book itself . In the title - page also of the copy of 1663 , the work is said to be ...
... Plays ; whereas the impression of 1663 does not include them , but ends with the play of Cymbeline , both in the catalogue prefixed , and in the book itself . In the title - page also of the copy of 1663 , the work is said to be ...
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... play , which so wonderfully characterized the genius of Shakspeare . This dis- similarity of mental construction is no where more apparent than in the short summaries which he has annexed to the close of each drama , and which are ...
... play , which so wonderfully characterized the genius of Shakspeare . This dis- similarity of mental construction is no where more apparent than in the short summaries which he has annexed to the close of each drama , and which are ...
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... play ; and at the bottom of the pages of the text , to give such only as were immediately necessary to explain our author's meaning . - We have made no comments but where we have felt doubt ourselves , or seen that others have ; and wè ...
... play ; and at the bottom of the pages of the text , to give such only as were immediately necessary to explain our author's meaning . - We have made no comments but where we have felt doubt ourselves , or seen that others have ; and wè ...
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... Play - wrighte Maister William Shakspeare from the many Errours faulsely charged on him by certaine new , fangled Wittes ; and to let him speak for himselfe , as right well he wotteth , when freede from the many careless Mistakings of ...
... Play - wrighte Maister William Shakspeare from the many Errours faulsely charged on him by certaine new , fangled Wittes ; and to let him speak for himselfe , as right well he wotteth , when freede from the many careless Mistakings of ...
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... play of fancy , have been exhibited by the author of these pamphlets in maintaining the fresh ground on which he has ventured to take his stand ; and it will , I think , be allowed that , notwithstanding several assaults , and some of ...
... play of fancy , have been exhibited by the author of these pamphlets in maintaining the fresh ground on which he has ventured to take his stand ; and it will , I think , be allowed that , notwithstanding several assaults , and some of ...
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admiration ancient appears Banquo bard beauty Ben Jonson Caliban character comedy comic criticism death delight delineation Desdemona drama dramatic poet edition effect England English Eschylus excellence exhibited expression Falstaff fancy feel genius of Shakspeare ghost give Greek Hamlet heart Henry Homer human humour Iago imagination impression Johnson JOSEPH WARTON Julius Cæsar king KING LEAR Lady Macbeth language Lear less literature Macbeth Malone manner mind moral murder nature never noble object observed Ophelia Othello passion perfect perhaps pieces pity play poet poetical poetry portraits possess produced racter reader remarkable Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet scarcely scene Schlegel seems Shak Shakspeare's Sophocles soul speare spectators spirit stage Steevens striking style sublime taste theatre thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tragic Troilus and Cressida truth unity Voltaire whilst whole writers written
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Page 211 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd 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 livelong monument.
Page 319 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Page 306 - 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 169 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 352 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 472 - 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 305 - 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 181 - Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Page 416 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 182 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.