The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1851 - 345 pages |
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Page xxix
... kind might be cited , to prove that the ancient stage was not so defective in the necessary decorations as some antiquarians of great authority would represent . " It may be added , " says Steevens , " that the dialogue of Shakspeare ...
... kind might be cited , to prove that the ancient stage was not so defective in the necessary decorations as some antiquarians of great authority would represent . " It may be added , " says Steevens , " that the dialogue of Shakspeare ...
Page xxxiv
... Kind Hart's Dreame ; lamenting that he had not omitted , or at least moderated , what Greene had written against Shakspeare , and adding , " I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault ; because myself have seen his ...
... Kind Hart's Dreame ; lamenting that he had not omitted , or at least moderated , what Greene had written against Shakspeare , and adding , " I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault ; because myself have seen his ...
Page xxxvii
... kind may be skilfully con- cealed ; or only become visible in the moments of hurried movement . Either Sir Walter Scott or Lord Byron might , without any impropriety , have written the verses in question They would have been applicable ...
... kind may be skilfully con- cealed ; or only become visible in the moments of hurried movement . Either Sir Walter Scott or Lord Byron might , without any impropriety , have written the verses in question They would have been applicable ...
Page xxxix
... kind . The source of his success is marked by the returning prosperity of his family . In 1578 , his father was unable to pay , as a member of the corporation , his usual contribution of four - pence a - week to the poor ; and in 1588 ...
... kind . The source of his success is marked by the returning prosperity of his family . In 1578 , his father was unable to pay , as a member of the corporation , his usual contribution of four - pence a - week to the poor ; and in 1588 ...
Page xli
... kind and gay and intelligent society , as the imagination finds it difficult to entertain an ade- quate conception of . " Sir Walter Raleigh , previously to his unfortunate engagement with the wretched Cobham and others , had instituted ...
... kind and gay and intelligent society , as the imagination finds it difficult to entertain an ade- quate conception of . " Sir Walter Raleigh , previously to his unfortunate engagement with the wretched Cobham and others , had instituted ...
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Page 45 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 242 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 50 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 132 - The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 101 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 125 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 270 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 90 - But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 285 - She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 216 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.