The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
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Page 60
... scene is fometimes laid in Bohemia , and fometimes in Sici- ly , according to the original order of the ftory . Almost all his historical plays comprehend a great length of time , and very different and diftinct places 60 SOME ACCOUNT ...
... scene is fometimes laid in Bohemia , and fometimes in Sici- ly , according to the original order of the ftory . Almost all his historical plays comprehend a great length of time , and very different and diftinct places 60 SOME ACCOUNT ...
Page 120
... scenes of life which are ufually the fubject of his thoughts : fo that he seems to have known the world by intu- ition , to have looked through human nature at one glance , and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new ...
... scenes of life which are ufually the fubject of his thoughts : fo that he seems to have known the world by intu- ition , to have looked through human nature at one glance , and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new ...
Page 131
... scenes ! these men ( as it was faid of Procruftes ) either lop- ping , or ftretching an author , to make him juft fit for their ftage . This edition is faid to be printed from the ori ginal copies ; I believe they meant those which had ...
... scenes ! these men ( as it was faid of Procruftes ) either lop- ping , or ftretching an author , to make him juft fit for their ftage . This edition is faid to be printed from the ori ginal copies ; I believe they meant those which had ...
Page 132
... Scenes , they are in this edition divided according as they played them ; often when there is no paufe in the action , or where they thought fit to make a breach in it , for the fake of mufick , mafques , or monsters . Sometimes the scenes ...
... Scenes , they are in this edition divided according as they played them ; often when there is no paufe in the action , or where they thought fit to make a breach in it , for the fake of mufick , mafques , or monsters . Sometimes the scenes ...
Page 144
... scene , has been applied to our author's quitting the flage . But Spenfer himself , it is well known , quitted the flage of life in the year 1598 ; and five years after this , we find Shakspeare's name among the actors in Ben Jonfon's ...
... scene , has been applied to our author's quitting the flage . But Spenfer himself , it is well known , quitted the flage of life in the year 1598 ; and five years after this , we find Shakspeare's name among the actors in Ben Jonfon's ...
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