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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... Spectator by Hughes and Addison during the years 1711 and 1712 , ' we shall not find it an easy matter to dis- cover ... Spectator , and Guardian , vol . 1 . p . 216 . Vide Spectator , nos . 141 and 419 . those who , from our native ...
... Spectator by Hughes and Addison during the years 1711 and 1712 , ' we shall not find it an easy matter to dis- cover ... Spectator , and Guardian , vol . 1 . p . 216 . Vide Spectator , nos . 141 and 419 . those who , from our native ...
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... spectator had neither that nor any other circumstance to make him ask how so much could be performed in so short a time . In an abstract view of dramatic art , its prin- ciples must appear to lie nearer to unity than to the opposite ...
... spectator had neither that nor any other circumstance to make him ask how so much could be performed in so short a time . In an abstract view of dramatic art , its prin- ciples must appear to lie nearer to unity than to the opposite ...
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... spectators for wit , but were connected in the depths of his reflective and penetrating spirit , with the very different feelings of bitter contempt or sorrowful sympathy . He was not , in know- ledge , far less in art , such as since ...
... spectators for wit , but were connected in the depths of his reflective and penetrating spirit , with the very different feelings of bitter contempt or sorrowful sympathy . He was not , in know- ledge , far less in art , such as since ...
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... spectators towards them by senti- ments purely natural . The circumstances are grand , but the men differ less from other men than those in the French tragedies . Shakspeare makes you penetrate entirely into the glory which he paints in ...
... spectators towards them by senti- ments purely natural . The circumstances are grand , but the men differ less from other men than those in the French tragedies . Shakspeare makes you penetrate entirely into the glory which he paints in ...
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... spectators . They are not mythological personages bringing their fictitious laws or their uninteresting nature amongst the in- terests of men : they are the marvellous effects of dreams , when the passions are strongly agitated . There ...
... spectators . They are not mythological personages bringing their fictitious laws or their uninteresting nature amongst the in- terests of men : they are the marvellous effects of dreams , when the passions are strongly agitated . There ...
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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.