An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireCharles Dilly, 1785 - 316 Seiten |
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... present . His merit is disputed by little wits , and his errors are the jefts of little critics ; but there has not been a great poet , or great critic , fince his time , who has not spoken of him with the highest veneration , Mr ...
... present . His merit is disputed by little wits , and his errors are the jefts of little critics ; but there has not been a great poet , or great critic , fince his time , who has not spoken of him with the highest veneration , Mr ...
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... present circumstances , and the charac- ters of the perfons from whofe conduct , in fuch circumstances , the fubfequent events are to flow . An intelligent spectator will re- ceive great pleasure from obferving every action naturally ...
... present circumstances , and the charac- ters of the perfons from whofe conduct , in fuch circumstances , the fubfequent events are to flow . An intelligent spectator will re- ceive great pleasure from obferving every action naturally ...
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... ) fince the days of good man Adam to the present hour . In the play of Henry V. you are told , that in his youth he had been fedulously observing mankind ; and from an apprehenfion , 9 been The First Part of HENRY IV .
... ) fince the days of good man Adam to the present hour . In the play of Henry V. you are told , that in his youth he had been fedulously observing mankind ; and from an apprehenfion , 9 been The First Part of HENRY IV .
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... present themselves : murder alarmed by his sentinel the wolf stealing towards his defign ; witchcraft celebrating pale Hecate's offerings ; the midnight ravisher invading fleeping innocence , feem his affociates ; and bloody daggers ...
... present themselves : murder alarmed by his sentinel the wolf stealing towards his defign ; witchcraft celebrating pale Hecate's offerings ; the midnight ravisher invading fleeping innocence , feem his affociates ; and bloody daggers ...
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... present to those readers , who do not understand French , the miferable mistakes and galimathias of this dictionary work . Brutus , in his foliloquy , meditating on what Caffius had been urging concerning Cæfar , thus expreffes his ...
... present to those readers , who do not understand French , the miferable mistakes and galimathias of this dictionary work . Brutus , in his foliloquy , meditating on what Caffius had been urging concerning Cæfar , thus expreffes his ...
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Seite 248 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Seite 266 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Seite 182 - But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Seite 266 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Seite 261 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Seite 262 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Seite 183 - And, — pr'ythee, lead me in : There, take an inventory of all I have ; To the last penny, 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell ! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 262 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.
Seite 187 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Seite 189 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...