An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, EsqJ. Archdeacon, 1767 - 50 страници |
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... Opinion of our Philofopher was not founded on this argument . - Shakespeare wanted not the Stilts of Languages to raise him above all other men . The quotation from · Lilly in the Taming of the Shrew , if indeed it be his , ftrongly ...
... Opinion of our Philofopher was not founded on this argument . - Shakespeare wanted not the Stilts of Languages to raise him above all other men . The quotation from · Lilly in the Taming of the Shrew , if indeed it be his , ftrongly ...
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... opinion concerning the literary acquifitions of our immortal Dramatist ; and remember how I congratulated myself on my coincidence with the laft and beft of his Editors . I told you however , that his Small Latin and lefs Greek b would ...
... opinion concerning the literary acquifitions of our immortal Dramatist ; and remember how I congratulated myself on my coincidence with the laft and beft of his Editors . I told you however , that his Small Latin and lefs Greek b would ...
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... opinion , which I am about to defend . But let us previously lament with every lover of Shakespeare , that the Queftion was not fully difcuffed by Mr. Johnson himself : what he fees intuitively , others must arrive at by a series of ...
... opinion , which I am about to defend . But let us previously lament with every lover of Shakespeare , that the Queftion was not fully difcuffed by Mr. Johnson himself : what he fees intuitively , others must arrive at by a series of ...
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... opinion of the pride and malignity of fenfon , at least in the earlier part of life , is abfolutely groundless : at this time scarce a play or a poem appeared without Ben's encomium , from the original Shakespeare to the tranflator of ...
... opinion of the pride and malignity of fenfon , at least in the earlier part of life , is abfolutely groundless : at this time scarce a play or a poem appeared without Ben's encomium , from the original Shakespeare to the tranflator of ...
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... opinion of his want of learning : " once indeed he made a proper diftinction between learning and lan- guages , as I would be understood to do in my Title- page ; but unfortunately he forgot it in the course of his disquisition , and ...
... opinion of his want of learning : " once indeed he made a proper diftinction between learning and lan- guages , as I would be understood to do in my Title- page ; but unfortunately he forgot it in the course of his disquisition , and ...
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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...
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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?