The Life of Shakespeare: Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Dramatists, English |
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Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. } | THE .L I FE OF S H A K.
Enquiries Into the Originality of His Dramatic Plots and Characters; and Essays on the Ancient Theatres and Theatrical Usages Augustine Skottowe. } | THE .L I FE OF S H A K.
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... Shak- speare occurs for the last time as a comedian ; and henceforth he may be supposed to have given his undivided attention to the manage- ment of the theatre , and the cultivation of dramatic literature , till he retired from the ...
... Shak- speare occurs for the last time as a comedian ; and henceforth he may be supposed to have given his undivided attention to the manage- ment of the theatre , and the cultivation of dramatic literature , till he retired from the ...
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... Shak- speare , if it were admissible to give any weight to prepossession : the countenance of the Chan- dos picture is heavy , dull , and inexpressive . Of the prints which have been so prodigally issued of Shakspeare , some are mere ...
... Shak- speare , if it were admissible to give any weight to prepossession : the countenance of the Chan- dos picture is heavy , dull , and inexpressive . Of the prints which have been so prodigally issued of Shakspeare , some are mere ...
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... Shak- speare . The head of the statue in Westminster Abbey , executed by Scheemaker , was modelled from Simon's mezzotinto print . The figure carved by Roubiliac , for Garrick , was from the same authority ; with the adoption of a hint ...
... Shak- speare . The head of the statue in Westminster Abbey , executed by Scheemaker , was modelled from Simon's mezzotinto print . The figure carved by Roubiliac , for Garrick , was from the same authority ; with the adoption of a hint ...
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... Shak- speare . It was the good fortune of this edition to be almost entirely destroyed in the fire of Lon- don , in 1666 , so that copies of it are now more rare than those of the first folio itself . A fourth folio , originating in the ...
... Shak- speare . It was the good fortune of this edition to be almost entirely destroyed in the fire of Lon- don , in 1666 , so that copies of it are now more rare than those of the first folio itself . A fourth folio , originating in the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 242 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...