The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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Page xvi
... shall retain the fronger ideas of his extenfive genius . His father , we are told , was a confiderable dealer in wool ; but having no fewer than ten children , of whom our Shakespeare was the eldest , the best education he could afford ...
... shall retain the fronger ideas of his extenfive genius . His father , we are told , was a confiderable dealer in wool ; but having no fewer than ten children , of whom our Shakespeare was the eldest , the best education he could afford ...
Page xxxiv
... shall either think them eafy , or practifed by a writer for his ease , he will foon be convinced of his mistake by the diffi- culty of reaching the imitation of them . Speret idem , fudet multùm , frustráque laboret , Aufus idem ...
... shall either think them eafy , or practifed by a writer for his ease , he will foon be convinced of his mistake by the diffi- culty of reaching the imitation of them . Speret idem , fudet multùm , frustráque laboret , Aufus idem ...
Page xxxvii
... shall not therefore run any great rifque of a cenfure , tho ' I fhall venture to hint , that the refemblance , in thought and expreffion , of our author and an ancient ( which we should allow to be imitation in one , whose learning was ...
... shall not therefore run any great rifque of a cenfure , tho ' I fhall venture to hint , that the refemblance , in thought and expreffion , of our author and an ancient ( which we should allow to be imitation in one , whose learning was ...
Page xxxviii
... shall advance fomething , that , at first fight , will very much wear the appearance of a paradox . For I fhall find it no hard matter to prove ,. that from the groffeft blunders in hiftory , we are not to infer his real ignorance of it ...
... shall advance fomething , that , at first fight , will very much wear the appearance of a paradox . For I fhall find it no hard matter to prove ,. that from the groffeft blunders in hiftory , we are not to infer his real ignorance of it ...
Page xlviii
... shall be pleased to fee it the employment of a masterly pen . It must neceffarily happen , as I have formerly observed , that where the affistance of manuscripts is wanting to set an author's meaning right , and refcue him from thofe ...
... shall be pleased to fee it the employment of a masterly pen . It must neceffarily happen , as I have formerly observed , that where the affistance of manuscripts is wanting to set an author's meaning right , and refcue him from thofe ...
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Page 35 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 63 - Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance...
Page 309 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 199 - Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness ; And, being help'd, inhabits there. Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling ; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling ; To her let us garlands bring.
Page 319 - Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 132 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page lxi - 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 69 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 42 - Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page xii - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...