The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr., embracing a life of the poet and notes, Volume 1 |
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Page xxvi
... leaving his sword to John Combe's nephew and residuary leg- atee , John Combe himself being at that time deceased . With the two commentators above mentioned , I am inclined , therefore , on the whole , to reject the story as a ...
... leaving his sword to John Combe's nephew and residuary leg- atee , John Combe himself being at that time deceased . With the two commentators above mentioned , I am inclined , therefore , on the whole , to reject the story as a ...
Page xxviii
... Leaves living art but page to serve his wit : - and the flat stone , covering the grave , holds out , in very irregular characters , a supplication to the reader , with the promise of a bless- ing , and the menace of a curse : - Good ...
... Leaves living art but page to serve his wit : - and the flat stone , covering the grave , holds out , in very irregular characters , a supplication to the reader , with the promise of a bless- ing , and the menace of a curse : - Good ...
Page xxxiii
... leaves their examples to operate by chance . This fault the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and justice is a virtue inde- pendent on time or place . " Why this common ...
... leaves their examples to operate by chance . This fault the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and justice is a virtue inde- pendent on time or place . " Why this common ...
Page xlv
... leave us to wonder at our admiration of an object so little worthy of it , though he has been followed by the admiration of more than two entire centuries . As an unfolder of intricate and perplexed passages , Johnson must be allowed to ...
... leave us to wonder at our admiration of an object so little worthy of it , though he has been followed by the admiration of more than two entire centuries . As an unfolder of intricate and perplexed passages , Johnson must be allowed to ...
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... leaving to his son Richard ( who had then risen to the highest eminence as an actor ) his property in the Blackfriars theatre . This seems to have been thought a good opportunity for again endeavoring to dislodge the players ; but ...
... leaving to his son Richard ( who had then risen to the highest eminence as an actor ) his property in the Blackfriars theatre . This seems to have been thought a good opportunity for again endeavoring to dislodge the players ; but ...
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Page 47 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 246 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 65 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 345 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 439 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 65 - gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.
Page 66 - But this rough magic I here abjure ; and, when I have required Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff.
Page 60 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 65 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt - the strong-based promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Page xxxiii - His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected...