The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators. To which are added notes by S. Johnson, Volume 1 |
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Page vii
... fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the teft of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from perfonal allufions , local customs , or tem- porary opinions ...
... fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the teft of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from perfonal allufions , local customs , or tem- porary opinions ...
Page ix
... world , be- cause he found nothing there which he fhould ever meet in any other place . The fame remark may be applied to every ftage but that of Shakespear . The theatre , theatre , when it is under any other direction , PREFACE . ix.
... world , be- cause he found nothing there which he fhould ever meet in any other place . The fame remark may be applied to every ftage but that of Shakespear . The theatre , theatre , when it is under any other direction , PREFACE . ix.
Page xi
... fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguise the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; for that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in ...
... fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguise the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; for that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in ...
Page xiii
... fame time , the reveller is hafting to his wine , and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolick of ano- ther ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without ...
... fame time , the reveller is hafting to his wine , and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolick of ano- ther ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without ...
Page xvi
... fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the ftory , without vehemence or ...
... fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the ftory , without vehemence or ...
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againſt Angelo Anthonio Baff becauſe beft Ben Johnson Caliban Clown defire Demetrius doft doth ducats Duke Edition Efcal Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fafe faid Fairies falfe fame father feems fenfe fent fhall fhew fhould fince firft fleep fome fomething fometimes foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftill ftrange fuch fuppofe fure fwear fweet Giannetto give hath heav'n Hermia himſelf honour houfe houſe Ifab juftice lady laft Laun lefs loft lord Lucio Lyfander mafter moft moſt mufick muft muſt myſelf obferved occafion paffage paffion perfon play pleaſe pleaſure Poet Pompey pray prefent Profpero Protheus Prov Puck purpoſe Pyramus racter reafon reft SCENE Shakespear ſhall ſhe Shylock Silvia Solarino ſpeak Speed thee thefe THEOBALD theſe thing thofe thoſe thou art thouſand Thurio uſe Valentine Venice WARBURTON whofe word worfe
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Page x - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Page 53 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page xxv - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Page 462 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page xxii - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Page 433 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!
Page 269 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 118 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page xxiii - ... with more zeal than judgment, to transfer to his imagined interpolators. We need not wonder to find Hector quoting Aristotle, when we see the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies.
Page lxxiii - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.