Shakspeare's Genius Justified: Being Restorations and Illustrations of Seven Hundred Passages in Shakspeare's Plays: which Have Afforded Abundant Scope for Critical Animadversion; and Hitherto Held at Defiance the Penetration of All Shakspeare's Commentators, Volume 10J. Johnson, 1819 - 470 pages |
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... proved too difficult for themselves , nor add farther light on that which they had in vain attempted to illustrate . Who , then , will not admit that the Works of our un- rivalled Bard become an object of national importance , and that ...
... proved too difficult for themselves , nor add farther light on that which they had in vain attempted to illustrate . Who , then , will not admit that the Works of our un- rivalled Bard become an object of national importance , and that ...
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... my Re- storations are founded merely on CONJECTURE ! Now this remark , however invidiously designed , seems better adapted to the labours of all my predecessors ; for b I trust to prove that the principles which have guided PREFACE . ix.
... my Re- storations are founded merely on CONJECTURE ! Now this remark , however invidiously designed , seems better adapted to the labours of all my predecessors ; for b I trust to prove that the principles which have guided PREFACE . ix.
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... prove that the principles which have guided me , and the clue which I have obtained , bring my Restora- tions , in the eye of candour , even to demonstration . Shakspeare being , as all our Commentators agree , ignorant of both the ...
... prove that the principles which have guided me , and the clue which I have obtained , bring my Restora- tions , in the eye of candour , even to demonstration . Shakspeare being , as all our Commentators agree , ignorant of both the ...
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... proved , that I shall not trouble the reader by entering farther into a detail that must be the echo of opinions already universally received . The point then which I contend is this , -that if ever any principle could be advanced ...
... proved , that I shall not trouble the reader by entering farther into a detail that must be the echo of opinions already universally received . The point then which I contend is this , -that if ever any principle could be advanced ...
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... prove the worst of husbands ? Ridiculous ! No : he means , that , in giving Miranda to Ferdinand , he gives the very thread of his own life , and which Ferdi- nand cuts , the moment he withdraws from Miranda the affectionate tenderness ...
... prove the worst of husbands ? Ridiculous ! No : he means , that , in giving Miranda to Ferdinand , he gives the very thread of his own life , and which Ferdi- nand cuts , the moment he withdraws from Miranda the affectionate tenderness ...
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Page 280 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 173 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 151 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good ; if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am Thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 330 - 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.
Page 277 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 154 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 96 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 30 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 341 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 282 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...