The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play ; with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsWalker, 1810 - 353 pages |
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Page iii
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Midsummer Night's Dream . LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM , Goswell Street ; FOR JOHN SHARPE , OPPOSITE ALBANY , PICCADILLY . 1810 . LICOVITEA ' PREFACE ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Midsummer Night's Dream . LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM , Goswell Street ; FOR JOHN SHARPE , OPPOSITE ALBANY , PICCADILLY . 1810 . LICOVITEA ' PREFACE ...
Page x
... turn over the page , and they will surely find something acceptable and engaging . But I have yet another apology to make , for some passages introduced merely on account of their pecu- liarity , which to some , possibly , will appear ...
... turn over the page , and they will surely find something acceptable and engaging . But I have yet another apology to make , for some passages introduced merely on account of their pecu- liarity , which to some , possibly , will appear ...
Page xi
... turn of the poet's imagination . There are many passages in Shakspeare so closely connected with the plot and cha- racters , and on which their beauties so wholly depend , that it would have been absurd and idle to have produced them ...
... turn of the poet's imagination . There are many passages in Shakspeare so closely connected with the plot and cha- racters , and on which their beauties so wholly depend , that it would have been absurd and idle to have produced them ...
Page 14
... Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his sound : Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second childishness , and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans every thing ...
... Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his sound : Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second childishness , and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans every thing ...
Page 21
... turns to a mirth - moving jest ; Which his fair tongue ( conceit's expositor , ) Delivers in such apt and gracious words , That aged ears play truant at his tales , And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his ...
... turns to a mirth - moving jest ; Which his fair tongue ( conceit's expositor , ) Delivers in such apt and gracious words , That aged ears play truant at his tales , And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his ...
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