An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, EsqJ. Archdeacon, 1767 - 50 страници |
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... antiquity he would undertake to fhow somewhat on the same fubject , at least as well written by Shakespeare . " Fuller , a diligent and equal fearcher after truth and quibbles , declares positively , that " his learning was very little ...
... antiquity he would undertake to fhow somewhat on the same fubject , at least as well written by Shakespeare . " Fuller , a diligent and equal fearcher after truth and quibbles , declares positively , that " his learning was very little ...
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... antiquity as fome people would pretend . And to close the whole , for I fufpect you to be tired of quotation , Mr. Whalley , the ingenious Editor of Jonfon , hath written a piece expressly on this fide the queftion : perhaps from a very ...
... antiquity as fome people would pretend . And to close the whole , for I fufpect you to be tired of quotation , Mr. Whalley , the ingenious Editor of Jonfon , hath written a piece expressly on this fide the queftion : perhaps from a very ...
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... antiquity . " Granted : —and as Mat . Prior fays , to fave the effufion of more Chriftian ink , I will endeavour to fhew , how they came to his acquaintance . It is notorious , that much of his matter of fact B know- knowledge is ...
... antiquity . " Granted : —and as Mat . Prior fays , to fave the effufion of more Chriftian ink , I will endeavour to fhew , how they came to his acquaintance . It is notorious , that much of his matter of fact B know- knowledge is ...
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... antiquity very well : that some of the Arrows of Cupid are pointed with Lead , and others with Gold , he found in Ovid ; and what he speaks of Dido , in Virgil : nor do I know any translation of these Poets fo ancient as Shakespeare's ...
... antiquity very well : that some of the Arrows of Cupid are pointed with Lead , and others with Gold , he found in Ovid ; and what he speaks of Dido , in Virgil : nor do I know any translation of these Poets fo ancient as Shakespeare's ...
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... antiquity than are any where to be met with in the writings of Shakespeare . I am forry to trouble you with trifles , yet what must be done , when grave men infift upon them ? It should seem to be the opinion of fome modern criticks ...
... antiquity than are any where to be met with in the writings of Shakespeare . I am forry to trouble you with trifles , yet what must be done , when grave men infift upon them ? It should seem to be the opinion of fome modern criticks ...
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Страница 31 - Their downy breast ; the swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons tower The mid aerial sky.
Страница 22 - Bible, by consulting the Concordance of Alexander Cruden. But whence have we the Plot of Timon, except from the Greek of Lucian?
Страница 88 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should...
Страница 70 - A compendious or briefe Examination of certayne ordinary Complaints of diuers of our Countrymen in these our...
Страница 77 - He was esteemed,' says Anthony Wood, ' a most noted poet, 1579 ; but when or where he died, I cannot tell, for so it is, and always hath been, that most Poets die poor, and consequently obscurely, and a hard matter it is to trace them to their graves.
Страница 8 - ... peruse over before, once or twice, the chapters and homilies, to the intent they might read to the better understanding of the people.
Страница 90 - I have quoted many pieces of John Taylor, but it was impossible to give their original dates. He may be traced as an author for more than half a century.
Страница 9 - Wagstaff on Tom Thumb; and I myself will engage to give you quotations from the elder English writers (for, to own the truth, I was once idle enough to collect such,) which shall carry with them at least an equal degree of similarity. But there can be no occasion of wasting any future time in this department: the world is now in possession of the Marks of Imitation. " Shakespeare however hath frequent allusions to the facts and fables of antiquity.
Страница 85 - Heminge and Condell ; who at their own retirement, about seven years after the death of their author, gave the world the edition now known by the name of the first folio ; and call the previous publications " stolne and surreptitious, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors.
Страница 88 - Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeare in his tomb, he should triumph againe on the stage, and haue his bones new embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least, (at seuerall times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding?