The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, Том 1Printed for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... perhaps written worse than any other . But I think I can in some mea- sure account for these defects , from several causes and accidents ; without which it is hard to imagine that so large and so enlightened a mind could ever have been ...
... perhaps written worse than any other . But I think I can in some mea- sure account for these defects , from several causes and accidents ; without which it is hard to imagine that so large and so enlightened a mind could ever have been ...
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... perhaps , for no better reason than that a governing player , to have the mouthing of some favourite speech himself , would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an underling . Prose from verse they did not know , and they ac- cordingly ...
... perhaps , for no better reason than that a governing player , to have the mouthing of some favourite speech himself , would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an underling . Prose from verse they did not know , and they ac- cordingly ...
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... perhaps a few particular passages , were of his hand . It is very probable what occasioned some plays to be supposed Shakspere's was only this ; that they were pieces produced by unknown authors , or fitted up for the theatre while it ...
... perhaps a few particular passages , were of his hand . It is very probable what occasioned some plays to be supposed Shakspere's was only this ; that they were pieces produced by unknown authors , or fitted up for the theatre while it ...
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... perhaps , sometimes conduce to the better understanding his works ; and , indeed , this author's works , from the bad treatment he has met with from copyists and edi- tors , have so long wanted a comment , that one would zealously ...
... perhaps , sometimes conduce to the better understanding his works ; and , indeed , this author's works , from the bad treatment he has met with from copyists and edi- tors , have so long wanted a comment , that one would zealously ...
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... Perhaps we should read So- phoclem . Shakspere is then appositely compared with a dramatick author among the ancients : but still it should be remembered that the elogium is lessened while the metre is reformed ; and it is well known ...
... Perhaps we should read So- phoclem . Shakspere is then appositely compared with a dramatick author among the ancients : but still it should be remembered that the elogium is lessened while the metre is reformed ; and it is well known ...
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Стр. 128 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Стр. 118 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
Стр. 175 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Стр. 123 - ... to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right. But there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
Стр. 124 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected...
Стр. 117 - Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character, is not very careful of distinctions super-induced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or Kings, but he thinks only on men.
Стр. 125 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented...
Стр. 131 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Стр. 113 - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions ; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find.
Стр. 116 - Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the Same occasion : even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life.