An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, EsqJ. Archdeacon, 1767 - 50 страници |
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... those who accufe him to have wanted learn- ing , give him the greatest commendation ; " yet an attack upon an article of faith hath been ufually re- ceived with more temper and complacence , than the unfortunate opinion , which I am ...
... those who accufe him to have wanted learn- ing , give him the greatest commendation ; " yet an attack upon an article of faith hath been ufually re- ceived with more temper and complacence , than the unfortunate opinion , which I am ...
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... those upon which they highly value themselves . " Yes , where there is a competition , and the competitor formidable : but , I think , this Critick himself hath scarcely fet in op- pofition the learning of Shakespeare and Jonson . When ...
... those upon which they highly value themselves . " Yes , where there is a competition , and the competitor formidable : but , I think , this Critick himself hath scarcely fet in op- pofition the learning of Shakespeare and Jonson . When ...
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... those illustrious lovers , and the arrangement of their dominion , He gave " Unto her the ' stablishment of Egypt , made her Of lower Syria , Cyprus , Lydia , Abfolute Queen . " Read Libya , fays the critick authoritatively , as is ...
... those illustrious lovers , and the arrangement of their dominion , He gave " Unto her the ' stablishment of Egypt , made her Of lower Syria , Cyprus , Lydia , Abfolute Queen . " Read Libya , fays the critick authoritatively , as is ...
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... those , who imagine Shakespeare to have been generally able to think for himself , that the topicks are obvious , and their application is different . - But for argument's fake , let the Parody be granted ; and " our Author , fays fome ...
... those , who imagine Shakespeare to have been generally able to think for himself , that the topicks are obvious , and their application is different . - But for argument's fake , let the Parody be granted ; and " our Author , fays fome ...
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... Those highly finished Landscapes , the Seasons , are indeed copied from Nature : but Thomson fometimes recollected the hand of his Master : " The stately failing Swan Gives out his fnowy plumage to the gale ; And arching proud his Neck ...
... Those highly finished Landscapes , the Seasons , are indeed copied from Nature : but Thomson fometimes recollected the hand of his Master : " The stately failing Swan Gives out his fnowy plumage to the gale ; And arching proud his Neck ...
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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?