Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... answer of a fpectator , who in coming out from the reprefentation of one of the pieces of Dionyfius the Ty rant was afked , what he had feen ? I have feen nothing , faid he , but have heard a deal of talk . The fame might be faid of the ...
... answer of a fpectator , who in coming out from the reprefentation of one of the pieces of Dionyfius the Ty rant was afked , what he had feen ? I have feen nothing , faid he , but have heard a deal of talk . The fame might be faid of the ...
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... answer an objection which has oftentimes been made to this admirable tragedy . Othello is another of thefe celebrated : plays , the fable of which is more regular than even that of Macbeth , which by some fome is reckoned the mafter ...
... answer an objection which has oftentimes been made to this admirable tragedy . Othello is another of thefe celebrated : plays , the fable of which is more regular than even that of Macbeth , which by some fome is reckoned the mafter ...
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... answers , It is , indeed ― I struggle with him now The transports that I felt to hear thee speak , And fee thy op'ning eyes , flopp'd for a moments His impetuous courfe , and all my mind Was happiness and thee ; but now the poifon ...
... answers , It is , indeed ― I struggle with him now The transports that I felt to hear thee speak , And fee thy op'ning eyes , flopp'd for a moments His impetuous courfe , and all my mind Was happiness and thee ; but now the poifon ...
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... , and the fcene between him and her is exceffively pathetic . She conceals , under fome my- fterious answers , the fatal truth ; while Demetrius's foul pours itfelf out in a flood flood of transport ; he changes his tone , and ( 84 )
... , and the fcene between him and her is exceffively pathetic . She conceals , under fome my- fterious answers , the fatal truth ; while Demetrius's foul pours itfelf out in a flood flood of transport ; he changes his tone , and ( 84 )
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... answers , Thence arife Black gods of execration and defpair ! Though dreadful earthquakes cleave your upward way , While nature flakes , and vapours blot the fun ; Then thro ' thofe horrors in loud groans proclaim , That I am - Dem ...
... answers , Thence arife Black gods of execration and defpair ! Though dreadful earthquakes cleave your upward way , While nature flakes , and vapours blot the fun ; Then thro ' thofe horrors in loud groans proclaim , That I am - Dem ...
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Page 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
Page 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
Page 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
Page 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
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Page 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
Page 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
Page 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
Page 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...