The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Band 1 |
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... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a fenator of Rome , fhould . play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish Ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare ...
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a fenator of Rome , fhould . play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish Ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare ...
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... kings love wine like other men , and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings . Thefe are the petty cavils of petty . minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the ...
... kings love wine like other men , and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings . Thefe are the petty cavils of petty . minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the ...
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... kings , while armies are levied and towns beficged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw court- ing his mistress , fhall lament the untimely fall of his fon . The mind revolts from evident falfehood , and ...
... kings , while armies are levied and towns beficged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw court- ing his mistress , fhall lament the untimely fall of his fon . The mind revolts from evident falfehood , and ...
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... King's most excellent Majeflie . AND PHILIP Earle of MONTGOMERY , & c . Gentleman of his Majesty's Bed - Chamber . Both Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter , and our fingular good LORDS . Right Honourable , W HILST we ftudy to ...
... King's most excellent Majeflie . AND PHILIP Earle of MONTGOMERY , & c . Gentleman of his Majesty's Bed - Chamber . Both Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter , and our fingular good LORDS . Right Honourable , W HILST we ftudy to ...
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... King Lear . This too makes it probable that the Prompter's Books were what they call'd the Original Copies . From liberties of this kind , many fpeeches alfo were put into the mouths of wrong perfons , where the Au- thor now feems ...
... King Lear . This too makes it probable that the Prompter's Books were what they call'd the Original Copies . From liberties of this kind , many fpeeches alfo were put into the mouths of wrong perfons , where the Au- thor now feems ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt Angelo Anthonio Baff becauſe beft Ben Johnson Caliban Clown defire Demetrius doft doth ducats Duke Edition Efcal Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fafe faid Fairies falfe fame father feems fenfe fent fhall fhew fhould fince firft fleep fome fomething fometimes foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftill ftrange fuch fuppofe fure fwear fweet Giannetto give hath heav'n Hermia himſelf honour houfe houſe Ifab juftice lady laft Laun lefs loft lord Lucio Lyfander mafter moft moſt mufick muft muſt myſelf obferved occafion paffage paffion perfon play pleaſe pleaſure Poet Pompey pray prefent Profpero Protheus Prov Puck purpoſe Pyramus racter reafon reft SCENE Shakespear ſhall ſhe Shylock Silvia Solarino ſpeak Speed thee thefe THEOBALD theſe thing thofe thoſe thou art thouſand Thurio uſe Valentine Venice WARBURTON whofe word worfe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Seite xxv - 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.
Seite 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Seite xxii - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Seite 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Seite 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Seite 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Seite xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Seite lxxiii - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.