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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... believe himself , the most cautious in the felection of his friends and companions . Earl Rivers , the father of the unfortunate Savage , was , in Swift's opinion , the most profligate and abandoned of men : and yet he was fo inchanted ...
... believe himself , the most cautious in the felection of his friends and companions . Earl Rivers , the father of the unfortunate Savage , was , in Swift's opinion , the most profligate and abandoned of men : and yet he was fo inchanted ...
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... believe , ex- cept by Prince Arthur , in King John , act iv . fcene 1 : By my Christendom , So I were out of prison , and kept sheep , I should be as merry as the day is long . Swearing by Christendom is fwearing by all that is dear ...
... believe , ex- cept by Prince Arthur , in King John , act iv . fcene 1 : By my Christendom , So I were out of prison , and kept sheep , I should be as merry as the day is long . Swearing by Christendom is fwearing by all that is dear ...
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... believe , their pieces did not fucceed the better for their contempt of the public tafte . The ftage was then in its infancy , nor could the people , all at once , be weaned from their baubles , their caps and bells , and party ...
... believe , their pieces did not fucceed the better for their contempt of the public tafte . The ftage was then in its infancy , nor could the people , all at once , be weaned from their baubles , their caps and bells , and party ...
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... believe it is the fame through Holland and all Germany . But Helen's love is as honeft as her parentage . It appears , throughout the whole play , that the paffion of this sweet girl is of the nobleft kind : Nature , fays Shakspeare in ...
... believe it is the fame through Holland and all Germany . But Helen's love is as honeft as her parentage . It appears , throughout the whole play , that the paffion of this sweet girl is of the nobleft kind : Nature , fays Shakspeare in ...
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... believe Mr. Steevens , whom nothing . escapes , is rather beforehand with me in this explanation , or at least in something very near it . KING . My honour's at the ftake ; which to defeat , I must produce my power . Mr. Theobald , who ...
... believe Mr. Steevens , whom nothing . escapes , is rather beforehand with me in this explanation , or at least in something very near it . KING . My honour's at the ftake ; which to defeat , I must produce my power . Mr. Theobald , who ...
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Страница 318 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly' ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
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.
Страница 128 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Страница 279 - But we should reflect, that Lear is not agitated by one passion only, that he is not moved by rage, by grief, and indignation, singly, but by a tumultuous combination of them all together, where all claim to be heard at once, and where one naturally interrupts the progress of the other.
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.