The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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... I never omitted to read and indulge mys it in the rapturous flights of this delightful and sweetest child of fancy : and when my imagination has been heated by the glowg ardour of his uncommon fire , have never failed to lament ...
... I never omitted to read and indulge mys it in the rapturous flights of this delightful and sweetest child of fancy : and when my imagination has been heated by the glowg ardour of his uncommon fire , have never failed to lament ...
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to which our poet instantly rejoined : " Thou son of fire , with thy face like a maple , The same difference as between a scalded and coddled apple . " " A part of the wit , " says Dr. Drake , " turns upon the com parison between the ...
to which our poet instantly rejoined : " Thou son of fire , with thy face like a maple , The same difference as between a scalded and coddled apple . " " A part of the wit , " says Dr. Drake , " turns upon the com parison between the ...
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... for they have issued from lips of fire , from conceptions worthy of a superior nature , from feelings solemn and unearthly . " Of the descendants of Shakspeare there is not one remaining . Hammet , his only son , died in childhood .
... for they have issued from lips of fire , from conceptions worthy of a superior nature , from feelings solemn and unearthly . " Of the descendants of Shakspeare there is not one remaining . Hammet , his only son , died in childhood .
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Those had most probably perished in the fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre in 1613 ; and the first folio was made up from the playhouse copies , and deformed by all the omissions and the additions which had been adopted to suit the ...
Those had most probably perished in the fire that destroyed the Globe Theatre in 1613 ; and the first folio was made up from the playhouse copies , and deformed by all the omissions and the additions which had been adopted to suit the ...
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O you leaden messengers , That ride upon the violent speed of fire , Fly with false aim ; move the still - piercing air , That sings with piercing , do not touch my lord ! Whoever shoots at him , I set him there ; Whoever charges on his ...
O you leaden messengers , That ride upon the violent speed of fire , Fly with false aim ; move the still - piercing air , That sings with piercing , do not touch my lord ! Whoever shoots at him , I set him there ; Whoever charges on his ...
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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