Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the Eighteenth CenturyBeverley Ellison Warner Dodd, Mead, 1906 - 268 halaman |
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Halaman xiv
... in the Folio which presuppose an editor's hand . We argue , therefore , that the other plays received the same attention . Indeed the players declare as much . They speak of former publications as xiv INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
... in the Folio which presuppose an editor's hand . We argue , therefore , that the other plays received the same attention . Indeed the players declare as much . They speak of former publications as xiv INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
Halaman xv
... players must have had in their possession the manuscripts in original or authenticated copies . " His mind and hand went together , " continues the preface , " and what he thought he uttered with that easinesse that we have scarce re ...
... players must have had in their possession the manuscripts in original or authenticated copies . " His mind and hand went together , " continues the preface , " and what he thought he uttered with that easinesse that we have scarce re ...
Halaman xxi
... players to please the vulgar audiences before which they played . There is much truth in this , but surely not enough to warrant the cutting out of a whole scene in " Henry V. " because the editor considered it " improper in French and ...
... players to please the vulgar audiences before which they played . There is much truth in this , but surely not enough to warrant the cutting out of a whole scene in " Henry V. " because the editor considered it " improper in French and ...
Halaman xxix
... players ' Preface . His arguments are ingenious and may be said to be convincing , although like every man with a brief , he exaggerates facts which of themselves are sufficient if barely stated . He reviews briefly the editions ...
... players ' Preface . His arguments are ingenious and may be said to be convincing , although like every man with a brief , he exaggerates facts which of themselves are sufficient if barely stated . He reviews briefly the editions ...
Halaman xxxii
... players in handling their parts . He had an extensive first - hand knowledge of the earliest printed copies both of Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries . He displays this knowledge in tracing the gradual process of ...
... players in handling their parts . He had an extensive first - hand knowledge of the earliest printed copies both of Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries . He displays this knowledge in tracing the gradual process of ...
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Halaman 16 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Halaman 266 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Halaman 252 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Halaman 114 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all < modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Halaman 124 - 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.
Halaman 20 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Halaman 126 - 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.
Halaman 123 - 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, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
Halaman 20 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
Halaman 4 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.