The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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Page xxxviii
... use of Latin words , than ever any other English author used , must we infer his knowledge of that language . A reader of taste may eafily obferve , that tho ? Shakespeare , almost in every scene of his historical plays , commits the ...
... use of Latin words , than ever any other English author used , must we infer his knowledge of that language . A reader of taste may eafily obferve , that tho ? Shakespeare , almost in every scene of his historical plays , commits the ...
Page xli
... use of compound and de - compound epithets . I will not , indeed , aver , but that one with Shakespeare's ex- quifite genius and observation might have traced these glaring characteristics of antiquity by read- ing Homer in Chapman's ...
... use of compound and de - compound epithets . I will not , indeed , aver , but that one with Shakespeare's ex- quifite genius and observation might have traced these glaring characteristics of antiquity by read- ing Homer in Chapman's ...
Page xlii
... use of this edition , I fhall proceed to confider him as a genius in poffeffion of an everlasting name . And how great that merit must be , which could gain it against all the disadvantages of the horrid condition in which he has ...
... use of this edition , I fhall proceed to confider him as a genius in poffeffion of an everlasting name . And how great that merit must be , which could gain it against all the disadvantages of the horrid condition in which he has ...
Page lii
... use of this part of my task , fome particulars of my Author's cha- racter are previously to be explained . There are Obscurities in him , which are common to him with all Poets of the fame fpecies ; there are others , the iffue of the ...
... use of this part of my task , fome particulars of my Author's cha- racter are previously to be explained . There are Obscurities in him , which are common to him with all Poets of the fame fpecies ; there are others , the iffue of the ...
Page lvi
... use of them , our late Editor seems to think , they should rather have slept in obfcurity and the having difcovered them is fneered at , as a fort of wrong - headed fagacity . The numerous corrections , which I made of the Poet's text ...
... use of them , our late Editor seems to think , they should rather have slept in obfcurity and the having difcovered them is fneered at , as a fort of wrong - headed fagacity . The numerous corrections , which I made of the Poet's text ...
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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...