The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel Johnson's Preface and Notes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...Munroe & Frances, 1802 |
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... the principles on which they ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Cor- d vol . I. neille , they have very generally received , by difcovering DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 39.
... the principles on which they ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Cor- d vol . I. neille , they have very generally received , by difcovering DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 39.
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... ftand , not that I think the prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but be- cause it is to be fufpected , that thefe precepts have not been fo easily received , but for better reasons than I have yet ...
... ftand , not that I think the prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but be- cause it is to be fufpected , that thefe precepts have not been fo easily received , but for better reasons than I have yet ...
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... ftand in the place of nature to another ; and imitation , always deviating a little , be- comes at laft capricious and cafual . Shakespeare , whether life or nature be his fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ...
... ftand in the place of nature to another ; and imitation , always deviating a little , be- comes at laft capricious and cafual . Shakespeare , whether life or nature be his fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ...
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... ftand unauthorized , and contented themselves with Rowe's régulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
... ftand unauthorized , and contented themselves with Rowe's régulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
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... ftand the judgment of the publick ; and wish that I could confidently produce my commentary as equal to the encouragement which I have had the honour of re- ceiving . Every work of this kind is by its nature defi- cient , and I fhould ...
... ftand the judgment of the publick ; and wish that I could confidently produce my commentary as equal to the encouragement which I have had the honour of re- ceiving . Every work of this kind is by its nature defi- cient , and I fhould ...
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Страница 37 - The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's Spring, but sorrow's Fall.
Страница 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Страница 31 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Страница 13 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Страница 27 - Antiquity, like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind, has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it, not from reason, but from prejudice.
Страница 17 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Страница 55 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt : the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake ; and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar : graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art...
Страница 36 - 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.
Страница 40 - Medea could, in so short a time, have transported him; he knows with certainty that he has not changed his place, and he knows that place cannot change itself; that what was a house cannot become a plain; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis.
Страница 50 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.