The Plays of William Shakspeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1George Kearsley, 1806 |
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Page i
... lives , and even their shape , make , and features , have been the subject of critical inquiries . How trifling soever this curiosity may seem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly satisfied with an account of any ...
... lives , and even their shape , make , and features , have been the subject of critical inquiries . How trifling soever this curiosity may seem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly satisfied with an account of any ...
Page x
... live him ; and since he could not know what might be said of him when he was dead , he desired it might be done immediately ; upon which Shakspeare gave him these four verses : " Ten in the hundred lies here engraved ; " Tis a hundred ...
... live him ; and since he could not know what might be said of him when he was dead , he desired it might be done immediately ; upon which Shakspeare gave him these four verses : " Ten in the hundred lies here engraved ; " Tis a hundred ...
Page xxiv
... lives , than to take any single great action , and form his work simply upon- that . However , there are some of his pieces where the fable is founded upon one action only . Such are ́ more especially , Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and ...
... lives , than to take any single great action , and form his work simply upon- that . However , there are some of his pieces where the fable is founded upon one action only . Such are ́ more especially , Romeo and Juliet , Hamlet , and ...
Page lxi
... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this may imagine more . He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delusion ...
... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this may imagine more . He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delusion ...
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... lives into plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sen- timent or ...
... lives into plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sen- timent or ...
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