The Plays of William Shakspeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1George Kearsley, 1806 |
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Page vi
... king James , in the latter end of his Henry the Eighth , is a proof of that play's being written after the accession of the latter of those two princes to the crown of England . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the ...
... king James , in the latter end of his Henry the Eighth , is a proof of that play's being written after the accession of the latter of those two princes to the crown of England . Whatever the particular times of his writing were , the ...
Page xxii
... King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our hi- storians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shak- speare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the same with the story ; one finds ...
... King John , King Richard , & c . What can be more agreeable to the idea our hi- storians give of Henry the Sixth , than the picture Shak- speare has drawn of him ! His manners are every where exactly the same with the story ; one finds ...
Page xxiii
... king ; and certainly nothing was ever more justly written than the character of Cardinal Wolsey . He has shewn him insolent in his prosperity ; and yet , by a wonderful address , he makes his fall and ruin the subject of general ...
... king ; and certainly nothing was ever more justly written than the character of Cardinal Wolsey . He has shewn him insolent in his prosperity ; and yet , by a wonderful address , he makes his fall and ruin the subject of general ...
Page xxvi
... King is mur- dered , in the second act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly spirit with which he writ ; and both show how powerful he was , in giving the strongest motions to our souls that they are capable of . I ...
... King is mur- dered , in the second act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly spirit with which he writ ; and both show how powerful he was , in giving the strongest motions to our souls that they are capable of . I ...
Page xlv
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a senator of Rome , should play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decen cy violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard . But Shakspeare ...
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a senator of Rome , should play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decen cy violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard . But Shakspeare ...
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