Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. DrakeNathan Drake 1828 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 27
Page 17
... called up the compositor , and woke all his devils . " • Vide Gentleman's Magazine , vol . 70 , p . 178. This article , which appears to have been written by Mr. Burke , closes with the following very impressive and momentous truth ...
... called up the compositor , and woke all his devils . " • Vide Gentleman's Magazine , vol . 70 , p . 178. This article , which appears to have been written by Mr. Burke , closes with the following very impressive and momentous truth ...
Page 22
... called ) will not allow me to believe that the windows shook , and that strange noises and deep groans were heard at midnight in his room - yet no creature of common sense ( and this woman possessed the quality in an eminent degree ) ...
... called ) will not allow me to believe that the windows shook , and that strange noises and deep groans were heard at midnight in his room - yet no creature of common sense ( and this woman possessed the quality in an eminent degree ) ...
Page 74
... called the restoration of literature ; the ages which preceded it were called the dark ages ; it would be more wise , perhaps , to say the ages in The distinction between the mere fabricator of harmonious metre and the genuine poet ...
... called the restoration of literature ; the ages which preceded it were called the dark ages ; it would be more wise , perhaps , to say the ages in The distinction between the mere fabricator of harmonious metre and the genuine poet ...
Page 78
... called Trilogies . In Shakspeare we may fancy these Trilogies connected into one representation . If Lear were divided into three , each part would be a play with the ancients ; or take the three plays of Agamemnon , and divide them ...
... called Trilogies . In Shakspeare we may fancy these Trilogies connected into one representation . If Lear were divided into three , each part would be a play with the ancients ; or take the three plays of Agamemnon , and divide them ...
Page 90
... called a privileged class ; but in those of purer fiction , it strikes me that there are licences con- ceded indeed to imagination's " chartered liber- tine , " but anomalous with regard to anything which can be recognized as principles ...
... called a privileged class ; but in those of purer fiction , it strikes me that there are licences con- ceded indeed to imagination's " chartered liber- tine , " but anomalous with regard to anything which can be recognized as principles ...
Contents
299 | |
307 | |
316 | |
342 | |
351 | |
362 | |
370 | |
381 | |
171 | |
178 | |
186 | |
203 | |
252 | |
268 | |
274 | |
280 | |
287 | |
389 | |
412 | |
418 | |
426 | |
437 | |
455 | |
463 | |
475 | |
Common terms and phrases
admiration ancient appears Banquo bard beauty Ben Jonson Caliban character comedy comic criticism death delight delineation Desdemona drama dramatic poet edition effect England English Eschylus excellence exhibited expression Falstaff fancy feel genius of Shakspeare ghost give Greek Hamlet heart Henry Homer human humour Iago imagination impression Johnson JOSEPH WARTON Julius Cæsar king KING LEAR Lady Macbeth language Lear less literature Macbeth Malone manner mind moral murder nature never noble object observed Ophelia Othello passion perfect perhaps pieces pity play poet poetical poetry portraits possess produced racter reader remarkable Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet scarcely scene Schlegel seems Shak Shakspeare's Sophocles soul speare spectators spirit stage Steevens striking style sublime taste theatre thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tragic Troilus and Cressida truth unity Voltaire whilst whole writers written
Popular passages
Page 211 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 319 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Page 306 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 169 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 352 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 472 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, 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.
Page 305 - 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 181 - Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Page 416 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 182 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.