The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
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... old comedies were waiters , pages , servants , and other personages of the same humble description : the meanness of their rank may be urged as some excuse for their vulgarity . The union of serious and comic business in the same play ...
... old comedies were waiters , pages , servants , and other personages of the same humble description : the meanness of their rank may be urged as some excuse for their vulgarity . The union of serious and comic business in the same play ...
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... Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. scene for every change of place throughout a play , so that it was frequently the lot of one painting , in the space of a few hours , to re- present the metropolis of different ...
... Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. scene for every change of place throughout a play , so that it was frequently the lot of one painting , in the space of a few hours , to re- present the metropolis of different ...
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... play was not absolutely purchased by the theatre , the poet looked for ... old plays varied extremely , and were , doubtless , regulated by the ... play . Dramatic writers were , therefore , generally poor : they were bound to theatrical ...
... play was not absolutely purchased by the theatre , the poet looked for ... old plays varied extremely , and were , doubtless , regulated by the ... play . Dramatic writers were , therefore , generally poor : they were bound to theatrical ...
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... Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. and play - makers , especially of Shakspeare . * The frequent visits of the bard , and the charms of the landlady , gave birth to the surmises which the succeeding anecdote ...
... Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. and play - makers , especially of Shakspeare . * The frequent visits of the bard , and the charms of the landlady , gave birth to the surmises which the succeeding anecdote ...
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... Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. related it from the information , not of one of Shak- speare's brothers , but of a relation of our poet , who lived to a good old ... play Adam , to be believed ? It is well ...
... Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. related it from the information , not of one of Shak- speare's brothers , but of a relation of our poet , who lived to a good old ... play Adam , to be believed ? It is well ...
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actors appears beauty Ben Jonson brother cardinal character circumstances Comedy of Errors commencement copied court crown daughter death display doth drama dramatist Duke edition Elizabeth entire exhibited fairies Falstaff father favour feet folio friar furnished Gentlemen of Verona Globe grace hand hath Henry the Fourth Henry the Sixth historian Holinshed honour incidents John Shakspeare Jonson Juliet Katharine king's lady Lord Love's Labour's Lost lover Malone Malone's marriage Menechmus Merchant of Venice mind mistress nature never night Note notice Oberon old play Oldys original passage passion performance person plot poem poet poet's pounds prince printed quarto queen racter reign Romeo Romeo and Juliet Romeus Rosader Rosalynd Saladyne scene servants Shak Shakspeare's Shakspeare's play Shrew speare stage Steevens story Strat Stratford tale Taming theatres theatrical thee Thomas Lucy thou thought tion Titania truders Tybalt unto wife Wolsey
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Seite 222 - ... in her days, every man shall eat in safety, under his own vine, what he plants ; and sing the merry songs of peace to all his neighbours: God shall be truly known ; and those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honour, and by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Seite 261 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream...
Seite 248 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Seite 257 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 242 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Seite 73 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 151 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds ' To smother up his beauty from the world...
Seite 69 - Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride...
Seite 84 - ... where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect of their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Seite 330 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...