...offspring, might bid defiance to any attempt to appropriate them to others : — " But Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he." He this year lent his friendly assistance to * I have had inquiry made in Ireland as to this story....

...of Titania, driving the spiders from the couch of the Queen ! Dryden truly said, that " Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he." It would have been well if he had not himself dared to step within the enchanted line, and drawn on...

...comprehensive soul." And, in the prologue to his adaptation of "The Tempest," he acknowledges that "Shakspere's magic could not copied be : Within that circle none durst walk but he." " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision," writes Dr. Johnson, "may now begin to assume...

...of Titania, driving the spiders from the couch of the Queen ! Dryden truly said that 1 Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he." It would have been well if he had not himself dared to step within the enchanted line, and drawn on...

...honourably remembered now on account of the magnificent tribute to Shakespeare's genius in the Prologue. "But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be, Within that circle none durst walk but he. " plicity of Miranda ; it becomes unmanly childishness in Hippolito : and the premature coquetry of...

...Z. 15. Vgl. die Bemerkung zu S. 37 unten. 34 unten. Die Verse aus Drydens Prolog zu "The Tempest" : "But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be: Within that circle none durst walk but he!" parodiert Burns (wie W. III. 424. Anm. nachweist) in dem Briefe an Ainslie 26. 4. 93 : "Spunkie's wanderings...

...' in 1679. In the prologue to his and D'Avenant's adaptation of ' The Tempest' in 1676, he wrote : But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. Restoration adaptations. From 1702 onwards Many adaptations of Shakespeare's plays were contrived to...

...the drops which fell from Shakespeare's pen. The storm which vanished on the neighbouring shore 15 Was taught by Shakespeare's Tempest first to roar....copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. 20 I must confess 'twas bold, nor would you now That liberty to vulgar wits allow, Which works by magic...

...altered and spoiled, and we can only hope the work was mostly Davenant's. In the prologue Dryden says: But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. Other plays followed, and Dryden entered into a contract to write three plays a year for the king's...

...features of his literary offspring, might bid def1ance to any attempt to appropriate them to others ; " But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be, Within that circle none durst walk but he." He this year lent his friendly assistance to correct and improve a pamphlet written by Mr. Gwyn, the...