The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, 1. köide |
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Page lxxv
... doth best commend a Booke , the Statio- ner fayes . Then , how odde foever your braines be , or your wisdomes , make your licence the fame , and fpare not . Judge your fixe - penny'orth , your fhillings worth , your five fhillings worth ...
... doth best commend a Booke , the Statio- ner fayes . Then , how odde foever your braines be , or your wisdomes , make your licence the fame , and fpare not . Judge your fixe - penny'orth , your fhillings worth , your five fhillings worth ...
Page cxxxvi
... doth little towards difpelling an obfcurity that arifeth , not from the licentious ufe of a fingle Teim , but from the unnatural arrangement of a whole Sentence . And they rifqued nothing by their filence . For Shak Spear was too clear ...
... doth little towards difpelling an obfcurity that arifeth , not from the licentious ufe of a fingle Teim , but from the unnatural arrangement of a whole Sentence . And they rifqued nothing by their filence . For Shak Spear was too clear ...
Page clxxiii
... doth ne'er advance The truth , but gropes , and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty Malice might pretend this praife , And think to ruine , where it feem'd to raise . Thefe are , as fome infamous Baud , or Whore , Should praise a Matron ...
... doth ne'er advance The truth , but gropes , and urgeth all by chance ; Or crafty Malice might pretend this praife , And think to ruine , where it feem'd to raise . Thefe are , as fome infamous Baud , or Whore , Should praise a Matron ...
Page clxxiv
... doth give the Fashion . And , that he Who cafts to write a living line must fweat , ( Such as thine are ) and frike the fecond heat Upon the Mules Anvile ; turn the fame , ( And himself with it ) that he thinks to frame ; Or for the ...
... doth give the Fashion . And , that he Who cafts to write a living line must fweat , ( Such as thine are ) and frike the fecond heat Upon the Mules Anvile ; turn the fame , ( And himself with it ) that he thinks to frame ; Or for the ...
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... zelo , that , being the only good Man that appears with the King , he is the only Man that pre- ferves his Cheerfulness in the Wreck , and his Hope on the Ifland . ble , ble , for our own doth little advantage ; if 4 TEMPEST . THE.
... zelo , that , being the only good Man that appears with the King , he is the only Man that pre- ferves his Cheerfulness in the Wreck , and his Hope on the Ifland . ble , ble , for our own doth little advantage ; if 4 TEMPEST . THE.
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Page x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Page 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page xxv - 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.
Page 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page xxii - 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.
Page 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Page 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Page lxxiii - ... 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.