Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on WoodMaurice and Company, and pub. by Hurst, Chance and E. Wilson, 1831 - 204 Seiten |
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... referred to the military preparations against the Spaniards , and for the assistance of Henry IV . of France , at the time above - mentioned ; and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to the Island of Trinidado , and up the River Oronooko ...
... referred to the military preparations against the Spaniards , and for the assistance of Henry IV . of France , at the time above - mentioned ; and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to the Island of Trinidado , and up the River Oronooko ...
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... referred by Malone to 1593 , or 1596 , but Chalmers ascribes it to 1591. Before the time of Shakspeare , the Dramatic Poets were accus- tomed to write the parts of inferior characters in comedies , in rhyme of the same kind as that ...
... referred by Malone to 1593 , or 1596 , but Chalmers ascribes it to 1591. Before the time of Shakspeare , the Dramatic Poets were accus- tomed to write the parts of inferior characters in comedies , in rhyme of the same kind as that ...
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... referred it's first composition to 1594 , or earlier ; with some additions to 1597 . The expression of the old edition already cited , he thinks , implies that there had been either a former impression of the play , or else that it had ...
... referred it's first composition to 1594 , or earlier ; with some additions to 1597 . The expression of the old edition already cited , he thinks , implies that there had been either a former impression of the play , or else that it had ...
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... referred to Chaucer's Knights Tale ; and Tyrwhitt remarks that Pluto and Proserpina , in the Marchante's Tale of the same Poet , appear to have been the true progenitors of Shakspeare's Oberon and Titania : but both personages had been ...
... referred to Chaucer's Knights Tale ; and Tyrwhitt remarks that Pluto and Proserpina , in the Marchante's Tale of the same Poet , appear to have been the true progenitors of Shakspeare's Oberon and Titania : but both personages had been ...
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... referred to the figure of Diana , which , Stow relates , was set up as a fountain on the East of the Cross in Cheapside , in 1598 ; and which , in 1603 , he speaks of as being then decayed . There is also an allusion to Marlow's Hero ...
... referred to the figure of Diana , which , Stow relates , was set up as a fountain on the East of the Cross in Cheapside , in 1598 ; and which , in 1603 , he speaks of as being then decayed . There is also an allusion to Marlow's Hero ...
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Seite 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Seite 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Seite 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Seite 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Seite 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Seite 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
Seite 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Seite 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...