The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected, Volume 7Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1841 |
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Page 134
... proof that he would have added more , if more had occurred to his mind , and more must have occurred if he had seen Shakspeare . JOHNSON . ROMEO AND JULIET . PRELIMINARY REMARKS . THE original relater 134 KING LEAR .
... proof that he would have added more , if more had occurred to his mind , and more must have occurred if he had seen Shakspeare . JOHNSON . ROMEO AND JULIET . PRELIMINARY REMARKS . THE original relater 134 KING LEAR .
Page 135
... ROMEO AND JULIET . PRELIMINARY REMARKS . THE original relater of this story appears to have been Luigi da Porto , a gentleman of Vicenza , who died in 1529. His novel seems not to have been printed till some years after his death ...
... ROMEO AND JULIET . PRELIMINARY REMARKS . THE original relater of this story appears to have been Luigi da Porto , a gentleman of Vicenza , who died in 1529. His novel seems not to have been printed till some years after his death ...
Page 136
... Romeo and Juliet may be added to the list , already numerous , of plays in which our great Poet has had a dramatic precursor , and that some slight remains of the old play are still to be traced in the earliest quarto . " " The story ...
... Romeo and Juliet may be added to the list , already numerous , of plays in which our great Poet has had a dramatic precursor , and that some slight remains of the old play are still to be traced in the earliest quarto . " " The story ...
Page 137
... Romeo and Juliet ( says the same admirable critic ) is a picture of love and its pitiable fate , in a world whose atmosphere is too rough for this tenderest blossom of human life . Two beings , created for each other , feel mutual love ...
... Romeo and Juliet ( says the same admirable critic ) is a picture of love and its pitiable fate , in a world whose atmosphere is too rough for this tenderest blossom of human life . Two beings , created for each other , feel mutual love ...
Page 138
... Romeo at Juliet's grave . - Shakspeare knew how to transform by enchantment , letters into spirit , a workman's daub into a poetical masterpiece . " Lessing declared Romeo and Juliet to be the only 138 ROMEO AND JULIET .
... Romeo at Juliet's grave . - Shakspeare knew how to transform by enchantment , letters into spirit , a workman's daub into a poetical masterpiece . " Lessing declared Romeo and Juliet to be the only 138 ROMEO AND JULIET .
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