Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. DrakeNathan Drake 1828 |
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... actions of the principal characters in the dramas of Shakspeare , and to demonstrate that they are in strict conformity with justify not only my compliment , but all compliments that either have been already paid to her talents , or ...
... actions of the principal characters in the dramas of Shakspeare , and to demonstrate that they are in strict conformity with justify not only my compliment , but all compliments that either have been already paid to her talents , or ...
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... action or sentiment which we are most concerned in , is always held out for our special notice . But who does not perceive that there is a peculiarity about it , which conveys a relish of the whole ? And very frequently , when no ...
... action or sentiment which we are most concerned in , is always held out for our special notice . But who does not perceive that there is a peculiarity about it , which conveys a relish of the whole ? And very frequently , when no ...
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... action , with so cunning a hand , yet with so care- less an air , and , master of our feelings , submits himself so little to our judgment , that every thing seems superior . We discern not his course ; we see no connection of cause and ...
... action , with so cunning a hand , yet with so care- less an air , and , master of our feelings , submits himself so little to our judgment , that every thing seems superior . We discern not his course ; we see no connection of cause and ...
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... Action produces one mode of excellence , and inaction another : the chronicle , the novel , or the ballad ; the king or the beggar ; the hero , the madman , the sot or the fool ; it is all one ; -nothing is worse , nothing is better ...
... Action produces one mode of excellence , and inaction another : the chronicle , the novel , or the ballad ; the king or the beggar ; the hero , the madman , the sot or the fool ; it is all one ; -nothing is worse , nothing is better ...
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... actions or his writings , has contributed to the moral and intellectual improvement of his species , there is implanted in the human breast a natural desire to be made acquainted with what had been his aspect and his features , and in ...
... actions or his writings , has contributed to the moral and intellectual improvement of his species , there is implanted in the human breast a natural desire to be made acquainted with what had been his aspect and his features , and in ...
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Page 211 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 319 - Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall— I will do such things.— What they are yet I know not,— but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You...
Page 306 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 169 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 352 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 472 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, 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.
Page 305 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 181 - Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Page 416 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 182 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.