Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the Eighteenth CenturyBeverley Ellison Warner Dodd, Mead, 1906 - 268 ページ |
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... criticism during the eighteenth century . The young reader is forever happening upon allusions to the opinions of Johnson , of Pope , of Theobald , etc. , without being able to locate the references . The orig- inals of these elusive ...
... criticism during the eighteenth century . The young reader is forever happening upon allusions to the opinions of Johnson , of Pope , of Theobald , etc. , without being able to locate the references . The orig- inals of these elusive ...
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... criticism properly so called in the seven- teenth century . So far from any attempt to purify the text of Shakespeare , every actor on the stage felt him- self authorised to corrupt it by his own additions or emendations . In printing ...
... criticism properly so called in the seven- teenth century . So far from any attempt to purify the text of Shakespeare , every actor on the stage felt him- self authorised to corrupt it by his own additions or emendations . In printing ...
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... criticism to which modern students and readers are so deeply indebted . To Nicholas Rowe , under - Secretary of State and poet laureate , belongs the honour of introducing Shakespeare to the world , by means of a formal biography and ...
... criticism to which modern students and readers are so deeply indebted . To Nicholas Rowe , under - Secretary of State and poet laureate , belongs the honour of introducing Shakespeare to the world , by means of a formal biography and ...
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... criticism , we learn from his deprecatory statement- " And though the works of Mr. Shakespeare may seem to many not to want a com- mentary , yet I fancy some little account of the man himself may not be thought improper to go along with ...
... criticism , we learn from his deprecatory statement- " And though the works of Mr. Shakespeare may seem to many not to want a com- mentary , yet I fancy some little account of the man himself may not be thought improper to go along with ...
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... critic can trace ( with no fear of contradiction save at the hand of other acute critics ) exactly where the Stratford poet ends and Fletcher or Heywood begins . But to attribute all of the gold to the titular author , and all of the ...
... critic can trace ( with no fear of contradiction save at the hand of other acute critics ) exactly where the Stratford poet ends and Fletcher or Heywood begins . But to attribute all of the gold to the titular author , and all of the ...
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16 ページ - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
266 ページ - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
252 ページ - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
114 ページ - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all < modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
124 ページ - 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.
20 ページ - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
126 ページ - 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.
123 ページ - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
20 ページ - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
4 ページ - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.