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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... mentioned by Matthew Paris as having been written * 3 * 3 * 34 * 33¶ $ 33¶. OF THE ORIGIN AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE Here cease more questions ; His May of youth ,. viii HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
... mentioned by Matthew Paris as having been written * 3 * 3 * 34 * 33¶ $ 33¶. OF THE ORIGIN AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE Here cease more questions ; His May of youth ,. viii HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
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... mentioned ; and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to the Island of Trinidado , and up the River Oronooko , to discover Guiana , in 1595 , or to Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition of the preceding year . Speed , also , in enumerating the ...
... mentioned ; and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to the Island of Trinidado , and up the River Oronooko , to discover Guiana , in 1595 , or to Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition of the preceding year . Speed , also , in enumerating the ...
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... mentioned by Meres in 1598 ; and , partly from a possible allusion to the civil war of France against Henry IV . in a speech by Dromio , Act iii . Sc . 2 , it's composition is referred by Malone to 1593 , or 1596 , but Chalmers ascribes ...
... mentioned by Meres in 1598 ; and , partly from a possible allusion to the civil war of France against Henry IV . in a speech by Dromio , Act iii . Sc . 2 , it's composition is referred by Malone to 1593 , or 1596 , but Chalmers ascribes ...
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... mentioned by Meres in his list of Shakspeare's works , published about the end of 1598 ; it is believed that the above date may be accurately assigned as the time of it's production . It is reported to have been formerly known under the ...
... mentioned by Meres in his list of Shakspeare's works , published about the end of 1598 ; it is believed that the above date may be accurately assigned as the time of it's production . It is reported to have been formerly known under the ...
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... mention of " Bankes's Horse , " which had been exhibited before 1589 , Malone has referred it's first composition to ... mentioned in the commence- ment . A twelvemonth and a day are supposed to ensue at the end , before the marriages of ...
... mention of " Bankes's Horse , " which had been exhibited before 1589 , Malone has referred it's first composition to ... mentioned in the commence- ment . A twelvemonth and a day are supposed to ensue at the end , before the marriages of ...
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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...