The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers, Volumen1 |
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... seems to anticipate the time when " a judicious and frugal selection " might be made from the labours of all his coadjutors . In attempting to form such a SELECTION , which the present Editor published in 1803 , and which is now ...
... seems to anticipate the time when " a judicious and frugal selection " might be made from the labours of all his coadjutors . In attempting to form such a SELECTION , which the present Editor published in 1803 , and which is now ...
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... seem indispensable to every edition of Shakspeare , in which illustra- tion is at all admitted . It is at his recommend- ation that Mr. Pope's preface is also prefixed , " valuable alike for composition and justness of remark , and ...
... seem indispensable to every edition of Shakspeare , in which illustra- tion is at all admitted . It is at his recommend- ation that Mr. Pope's preface is also prefixed , " valuable alike for composition and justness of remark , and ...
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... seems inclined to revive their opinion , but finds it impossible . In his eighteenth year ( 1582 ) or perhaps a little sooner , he married ANNE HATHAWAY , who was seven years and a half older than himself . She was the daughter of one ...
... seems inclined to revive their opinion , but finds it impossible . In his eighteenth year ( 1582 ) or perhaps a little sooner , he married ANNE HATHAWAY , who was seven years and a half older than himself . She was the daughter of one ...
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... seems to want every mark of probability . " Though Shakspeare quitted Stratford on account of a " juvenile irregularity , we have no reason to suppose " that he had forfeited the protection of his father , who " was engaged in a ...
... seems to want every mark of probability . " Though Shakspeare quitted Stratford on account of a " juvenile irregularity , we have no reason to suppose " that he had forfeited the protection of his father , who " was engaged in a ...
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... seems to be impossible to ascertain with any certainty . His plays , however , must have been not only popular , but approved by persons of the higher order , as we are certain that he enjoyed the gracious favour of queen Elizabeth ...
... seems to be impossible to ascertain with any certainty . His plays , however , must have been not only popular , but approved by persons of the higher order , as we are certain that he enjoyed the gracious favour of queen Elizabeth ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 84 - Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'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...
Página 91 - What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours : Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together?
Página 47 - 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.
Página 38 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Página 62 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Página 83 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further : Go, release them, Ariel ; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Página 22 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion.
Página 32 - 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.
Página 117 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 23 - Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.