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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Fie nimself tells us , 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 heav'n to garnish ...
Fie nimself tells us , 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 heav'n to garnish ...
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Longinus tells us , that the most infallible test of the true sublime , is the impression a performance makes upon our minds when read or recited . " If , " says he , " a person finds , that a performance transports not his soul ...
Longinus tells us , that the most infallible test of the true sublime , is the impression a performance makes upon our minds when read or recited . " If , " says he , " a person finds , that a performance transports not his soul ...
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Dennis adds , that , from the Queen's eagerness to see it acted , " she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days , and was afterwards , as tradition tells us , very well pleased with the representation .
Dennis adds , that , from the Queen's eagerness to see it acted , " she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days , and was afterwards , as tradition tells us , very well pleased with the representation .
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It is said , that as Shakspeare was leaning over the hatch of a mercer's door at Stratford , a drunken blacksmith , with a carbuncled face , reeled up to him , and demanded , " Now , Mr. Shakspeare , tell me if you can , The difference ...
It is said , that as Shakspeare was leaning over the hatch of a mercer's door at Stratford , a drunken blacksmith , with a carbuncled face , reeled up to him , and demanded , " Now , Mr. Shakspeare , tell me if you can , The difference ...
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... Elias James to Nature payd his debt , And here reposeth : as he lived , he dyde ; The saying in him strongly verifide , — Such life , such death : then , the known truth to tell , He lived a godly life , and dyde as well . " WM .
... Elias James to Nature payd his debt , And here reposeth : as he lived , he dyde ; The saying in him strongly verifide , — Such life , such death : then , the known truth to tell , He lived a godly life , and dyde as well . " WM .
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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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