The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... appears to us to be the highest burlesque , on them would have made no sort of impression . We must not wonder at this , in an age when courage , devotion , and ignorance , composed the character of European manners ; when the knight ...
... appears to us to be the highest burlesque , on them would have made no sort of impression . We must not wonder at this , in an age when courage , devotion , and ignorance , composed the character of European manners ; when the knight ...
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... appears by the manuscript of the Coventry plays , that a tem- porary scaffold only was erected for these per- formances . " 997 • In the ancient religious plays the Devil was very frequently introduced . He was usually represented with ...
... appears by the manuscript of the Coventry plays , that a tem- porary scaffold only was erected for these per- formances . " 997 • In the ancient religious plays the Devil was very frequently introduced . He was usually represented with ...
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... appears to have been born in the same year with our great poet ( 1564 ) . Supposing him to have been seven or eight years old when he saw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 . I am unable to ascertain when the ...
... appears to have been born in the same year with our great poet ( 1564 ) . Supposing him to have been seven or eight years old when he saw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 . I am unable to ascertain when the ...
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... appears from the assertions of the controversial writers . 66 They play " says one of them , " and counterfeite the whole Passion so trimly , with all the seven sorrowes of our lady , as though it had been nothing else but a simple and ...
... appears from the assertions of the controversial writers . 66 They play " says one of them , " and counterfeite the whole Passion so trimly , with all the seven sorrowes of our lady , as though it had been nothing else but a simple and ...
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... appears to have been acted on a publick theatre , nor was there at that time any building in London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the ...
... appears to have been acted on a publick theatre , nor was there at that time any building in London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the ...
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Page 110 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 69 - Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 165 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Page 217 - I loved the man and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 224 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 246 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 74 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Page 69 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Page 213 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 216 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.