Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on Wood |
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... attributed to the pilgrims who went to the Holy - land ; and the very general custom of performing such pieces at festivals , to the sacred plays at those ancient national marts , by which the commerce of Europe was principally sup ...
... attributed to the pilgrims who went to the Holy - land ; and the very general custom of performing such pieces at festivals , to the sacred plays at those ancient national marts , by which the commerce of Europe was principally sup ...
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... attributed to Shakspeare , though the truth is , that every one of his historical subjects had been dramatised and performed before his time . With more probability their origin has been assigned to the celebrated Mirrour for ...
... attributed to Shakspeare , though the truth is , that every one of his historical subjects had been dramatised and performed before his time . With more probability their origin has been assigned to the celebrated Mirrour for ...
Page xiii
... attributed to these models ; but one or more regular playhouses , at the Black and White Friars , were cer- tainly erected before 1580 , when they were suppressed for their immo- rality , together with all the temporary stages of London ...
... attributed to these models ; but one or more regular playhouses , at the Black and White Friars , were cer- tainly erected before 1580 , when they were suppressed for their immo- rality , together with all the temporary stages of London ...
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... attributed to the imperfection of manners , the slow advance of general civilisation , and the remains of that rude humour , which introduced it's dissolute and profane merriment into even the sacred stories of the Scripture - Mysteries ...
... attributed to the imperfection of manners , the slow advance of general civilisation , and the remains of that rude humour , which introduced it's dissolute and profane merriment into even the sacred stories of the Scripture - Mysteries ...
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... attributed the outlines of the storm and the Enchanted Island , to Silvester Jourdan's Discovery of the Burmudas , otherwise called the Island of Divels , 1610 , 4to . , which also contains an account of the shipwreck of Sir George ...
... attributed the outlines of the storm and the Enchanted Island , to Silvester Jourdan's Discovery of the Burmudas , otherwise called the Island of Divels , 1610 , 4to . , which also contains an account of the shipwreck of Sir George ...
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Page 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Page 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Page 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Page 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
Page 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Page 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...