Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is prefixed a sketch of the author's life, Volumen 1 |
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Página iii
... any considerable distance from the play - houses , to ride thither on horse - back , so that men were employed to hold the horses till the close of the performance . 1 Our author , then unconscious of a genius which after- b 2 iii 1 ...
... any considerable distance from the play - houses , to ride thither on horse - back , so that men were employed to hold the horses till the close of the performance . 1 Our author , then unconscious of a genius which after- b 2 iii 1 ...
Página iv
... play - house continued . 1 From the situation in which he was placed , he at- tracted the notice of the comedians , who recommended him to the manager . He was at first only admitted to the humble station of what is termed call boy , or ...
... play - house continued . 1 From the situation in which he was placed , he at- tracted the notice of the comedians , who recommended him to the manager . He was at first only admitted to the humble station of what is termed call boy , or ...
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... plays to be acted at Court . Her Majesty's approbation of Falstaff , in the first and second parts of Henry the ... play . A have been written originally under the name of Old- castle b3 to this unnatural bombast mode of acting in his ...
... plays to be acted at Court . Her Majesty's approbation of Falstaff , in the first and second parts of Henry the ... play . A have been written originally under the name of Old- castle b3 to this unnatural bombast mode of acting in his ...
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... plays was written first , a point not very material . However , one agreeable circumstance , to a generous mind , we are authentically acquainted with , namely , that the latter part of his life , as appears from the most authentic ...
... plays was written first , a point not very material . However , one agreeable circumstance , to a generous mind , we are authentically acquainted with , namely , that the latter part of his life , as appears from the most authentic ...
Página x
... plays — indeed they are more frequently and more ex-- pressively alluded to by contemporary writers . Meres , in his Wit's Treasury , published in 1598 , has the follow- ing observation . " As the soul of Euphorbus was X.
... plays — indeed they are more frequently and more ex-- pressively alluded to by contemporary writers . Meres , in his Wit's Treasury , published in 1598 , has the follow- ing observation . " As the soul of Euphorbus was X.
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ancient beauty behold Ben Jonson blood blot blush boar breast breath cheeks COLATINE comedy confounds copies read dead death deep desire disdain dost doth edition of 1596 EDITOR eyes face fair fair lord false Falstaff fame fault fear fire formerly foul gentle grief guilty hand haste hate hath heart Hero and Leander honour kings kiss light lips live LONE looks love's lust MALONE means mind nature never night o'er pale passion poem poet poor Priam proud quarto quoth rage Rape of Lucrece rhyme Roman seems Sextus Tarquinius Shake Shakespeare shalt shame shew sighs signifies sorrow soul sound of hope spring stanza STEEVENS strife suppose sweet TARQUIN AND LUCRECE tears tender Tereus thee thine thou art thought thro thyself tion tongue true unto VENUS AND ADONIS watergalls weep wilt wind words wound writers
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Página xx - In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species.
Página xxi - Shakespeare excels in accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theatre, when it is under any other direction...
Página xl - Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time; And all the muses still were in their prime When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines, Which were so richly spun and woven so fit As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.
Página xx - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and, the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Página xxvii - In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy, nor are sufficiently distinguished from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners.
Página xli - Muses' anvil, turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or for the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed lines, In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Página xxii - He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable, he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities, knowing that kings love wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings. These are the petty cavils of petty minds; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery.
Página xxxvi - Though he had so many difficulties to encounter, and so little assistance to surmount them, he has been able to obtain an exact knowledge of many modes of life, and many casts of native dispositions; to vary them with great multiplicity; to mark them by nice distinctions; and to shew them in full view by proper combinations.
Página xix - The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
Página xxviii - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind, and its fascinations are irresistible.