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
... scenes which they once illuminated . The ef- fects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rished ; his works support no opinion with argu- ments , nor fupply any faction with ...
... scenes which they once illuminated . The ef- fects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rished ; his works support no opinion with argu- ments , nor fupply any faction with ...
Page xi
... scenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise ...
... scenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise ...
Page xii
... scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world , and a confeffor predict the progress of the paffions . His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the cenfure of criticks , who form their judgments upon ...
... scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world , and a confeffor predict the progress of the paffions . His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the cenfure of criticks , who form their judgments upon ...
Page xiii
... scenes , as it extends to all his works , de- ferves more confideration . Let the fact be first stated , and then examined . Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous or cri- tical sense either tragedies or comedies , but compo ...
... scenes , as it extends to all his works , de- ferves more confideration . Let the fact be first stated , and then examined . Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous or cri- tical sense either tragedies or comedies , but compo ...
Page xiv
... scenes the paffions are interrupted in their progression , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at last the power power to move , which constitutes the perfection of ...
... scenes the paffions are interrupted in their progression , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at last the power power to move , which constitutes the perfection of ...
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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.