Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare: with a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick, and Other Celebrated Comedians. ... By Thomas Davies, ... In Three Volumes. ...author, and sold at his shop, 1783 - 2 страници |
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... Jonson , and his friends Beaumont and Fletcher , very seldom employed this merry agent in their plays . Their claffical learning placed them , it is thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo : but , I believe ...
... Jonson , and his friends Beaumont and Fletcher , very seldom employed this merry agent in their plays . Their claffical learning placed them , it is thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo : but , I believe ...
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... Jonson was not averfe to the use of the characters and language of comedy in his tragedies ; but Ben understood not the art of blending them fo happily as not to destroy the effect of either . In his Seja- nus , he introduces a scene ...
... Jonson was not averfe to the use of the characters and language of comedy in his tragedies ; but Ben understood not the art of blending them fo happily as not to destroy the effect of either . In his Seja- nus , he introduces a scene ...
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... Jonson's language . — Kitely and Bobadil . — Mafter Stephen and Slender . -Clement , Downright , and Brainworm . -Knowell . Anecdote of Shakspeare and Fonfon . Prologue to Every Man in his Fonfon's malice . - Dennis's thunder . This ...
... Jonson's language . — Kitely and Bobadil . — Mafter Stephen and Slender . -Clement , Downright , and Brainworm . -Knowell . Anecdote of Shakspeare and Fonfon . Prologue to Every Man in his Fonfon's malice . - Dennis's thunder . This ...
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... Jonson in his twenty - fourth , Notwithstanding the friendship which Shakspeare had manifested to Ben , by pa- tronizing his play , yet the reader will find that the prologue is nothing less than a fatirical picture of feveral of ...
... Jonson in his twenty - fourth , Notwithstanding the friendship which Shakspeare had manifested to Ben , by pa- tronizing his play , yet the reader will find that the prologue is nothing less than a fatirical picture of feveral of ...
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... Jonson's play , called Every Man in his Humour . [ The actor is fuppofed to enter with reluctance . ] Intreaty fhall not serve , nor violence , To make me fpeak in fuch a play's defence . A play , where wit and humour do agree To break ...
... Jonson's play , called Every Man in his Humour . [ The actor is fuppofed to enter with reluctance . ] Intreaty fhall not serve , nor violence , To make me fpeak in fuch a play's defence . A play , where wit and humour do agree To break ...
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Страница 255 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Страница 210 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Страница 317 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Страница 265 - I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.
Страница 147 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Страница 20 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
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Страница 355 - Ant. Come on, my soldier! Our hearts and arms are still the same : I long Once more to meet our foes; that thou and I, Like Time and Death, marching before our troops, May taste fate to them ; mow them out a passage, And, entering where the foremost squadrons yield, Begin the noble harvest of the field.