The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Volym 1 |
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Sida vii
... most confidered , and what is moft confidered is beft un- derstood . The Poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revifion , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and ...
... most confidered , and what is moft confidered is beft un- derstood . The Poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revifion , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and ...
Sida xi
... most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; for that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents ...
... most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; for that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents ...
Sida xvi
... most of the criticifms of Rhymer and Voltaire vanish away . The play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two fentinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , without injury to the scheme of the play , though in terms which a ...
... most of the criticifms of Rhymer and Voltaire vanish away . The play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two fentinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , without injury to the scheme of the play , though in terms which a ...
Sida xix
... most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpofe . From his writings in- deed a system of focial duty ...
... most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpofe . From his writings in- deed a system of focial duty ...
Sida xxi
... most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his invention , or ftrains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumour , meannefs , tedioufnefs , and obfcu- rity . In narration he affects a difproportionate pomp ...
... most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his invention , or ftrains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumour , meannefs , tedioufnefs , and obfcu- rity . In narration he affects a difproportionate pomp ...
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Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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!
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.