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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... poet whom , to adopt the language of Mr. Sher- lock , Nature made , and then broke the mould . In the course of the two succeeding years , 1787 and 1788 , Mr. Felton presented the public with his Imperfect Hints towards a new Edition of ...
... poet whom , to adopt the language of Mr. Sher- lock , Nature made , and then broke the mould . In the course of the two succeeding years , 1787 and 1788 , Mr. Felton presented the public with his Imperfect Hints towards a new Edition of ...
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... as to induce the conviction that , though ostensibly predicated of Virgil , it was covertly meant as a faithful picture of Introduction , p . xxvi . the poetry of the author's beloved friend and pa- tron PREFATORY ESSAY . 51.
... as to induce the conviction that , though ostensibly predicated of Virgil , it was covertly meant as a faithful picture of Introduction , p . xxvi . the poetry of the author's beloved friend and pa- tron PREFATORY ESSAY . 51.
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Nathan Drake. the poetry of the author's beloved friend and pa- tron , his admired Shakspeare , several of whose best plays had been brought forward anterior to the appearance of the Poetaster . That which he hath writ Is with such ...
Nathan Drake. the poetry of the author's beloved friend and pa- tron , his admired Shakspeare , several of whose best plays had been brought forward anterior to the appearance of the Poetaster . That which he hath writ Is with such ...
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... Poet ; Cri- ticisms on his Genius and Writings ; a New Chro- nology of his Plays ; a Disquisition on the Object of his Sonnets , and a History of the Manners , Cus- toms , and Amusements , Superstitions , Poetry , and Elegant Literature ...
... Poet ; Cri- ticisms on his Genius and Writings ; a New Chro- nology of his Plays ; a Disquisition on the Object of his Sonnets , and a History of the Manners , Cus- toms , and Amusements , Superstitions , Poetry , and Elegant Literature ...
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... poetry , Pope's satires and epistles must be poetry . Poetry , however , as distinguished from general modes of composition , does not rest in metre ; it is not poetry if it make no appeal to our imagination , our passions , and our ...
... poetry , Pope's satires and epistles must be poetry . Poetry , however , as distinguished from general modes of composition , does not rest in metre ; it is not poetry if it make no appeal to our imagination , our passions , and our ...
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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.