Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... should ever meet in any other place . The fame remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peo- pled by fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a ...
... should ever meet in any other place . The fame remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peo- pled by fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a ...
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... should form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should ...
... should form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should ...
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... should most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or imperfectly represented . " He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs ...
... should most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or imperfectly represented . " He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs ...
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... should most please ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we ftill find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very ...
... should most please ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we ftill find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very ...
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... should in another loath or defpife . If we endured without praifing , refpect for the father of our drama might excufe us ; but I have feen , in the book of some modern critick , a collection of anomalies , which thew that he has ...
... should in another loath or defpife . If we endured without praifing , refpect for the father of our drama might excufe us ; but I have feen , in the book of some modern critick , a collection of anomalies , which thew that he has ...
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Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And '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...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...