The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... writer , the titles are scarcely known , except to antiquaries ; nor is there one of them that will bear a second perusal ' . Yet 1 I must be permitted to dissent from this sweeping censure passed upon all the predecessors of our great ...
... writer , the titles are scarcely known , except to antiquaries ; nor is there one of them that will bear a second perusal ' . Yet 1 I must be permitted to dissent from this sweeping censure passed upon all the predecessors of our great ...
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... writer with great probability supposes it to have been composed in 1174 , the author in one pas- sage mentioning that the church of St. Paul's was formerly metro- political , and that it was thought it would become so again , " should ...
... writer with great probability supposes it to have been composed in 1174 , the author in one pas- sage mentioning that the church of St. Paul's was formerly metro- political , and that it was thought it would become so again , " should ...
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... writer whose words I have just quoted , has given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs which lasted ...
... writer whose words I have just quoted , has given the following ingenious account of the origin of this rude species of dramatick entertainment : " About the eighth century trade was principally carried on by means of fairs which lasted ...
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... writer now living , who has investigated the history of human manners with great comprehension and sa- gacity . " Voltaire's theory on this subject is also very in- genious , and quite new . Religious plays , he 3 OF THE ENGLISH STAGE . 11.
... writer now living , who has investigated the history of human manners with great comprehension and sa- gacity . " Voltaire's theory on this subject is also very in- genious , and quite new . Religious plays , he 3 OF THE ENGLISH STAGE . 11.
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... writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety , nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all ...
... writers nor the spectators saw the impropriety , nor paid a separate attention to the comick and the serious part of these motley scenes ; at least they were persuaded that the solemnity of the subject covered or excused all ...
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Page 72 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ] and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place ; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Page 190 - Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe: And if then you doe not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him.
Page 106 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 67 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Page 155 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Page 67 - This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale.
Page 51 - ... these our servants Lawrence Fletcher, William Shakespeare, Richard Burbage, Augustine Phillipps, John Heming, Henry Condell, William Sly, Robert Armin, Richard Cowley, and the rest of their associates...
Page 137 - Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit, et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit, eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator, functusque sacris et potus et exlex.
Page 81 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave.
Page 357 - Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment, or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated.