Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare: with a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick, and Other Celebrated Comedians. ... By Thomas Davies, ... In Three Volumes. ...author, and sold at his shop, 1783 - 2 pages |
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... best dramatic cook to prepare entertainment for a people fo melancholy and fo merry , fo fprightly and fo fad , as the English are generally faid to be . So convinced was Shakspeare that his countrymen could not be fatisfied with their ...
... best dramatic cook to prepare entertainment for a people fo melancholy and fo merry , fo fprightly and fo fad , as the English are generally faid to be . So convinced was Shakspeare that his countrymen could not be fatisfied with their ...
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... best love , Catiline . ' We have the author's teftimony that this play was condemned in the acting . It can- not now be known whether it was after- wards revived before the playhouses were shut up in the beginning of the civil wars , I ...
... best love , Catiline . ' We have the author's teftimony that this play was condemned in the acting . It can- not now be known whether it was after- wards revived before the playhouses were shut up in the beginning of the civil wars , I ...
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... best editors fpeak of a letter which James wrote to him in his own hand : a very fingular mark of royal favour , and an evident proof of the king's good taste , humanity , and condefcenfion . To compliment his royal mafter as the ...
... best editors fpeak of a letter which James wrote to him in his own hand : a very fingular mark of royal favour , and an evident proof of the king's good taste , humanity , and condefcenfion . To compliment his royal mafter as the ...
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... best dancers . employed in the exhibition of infernal spi- rits . Had Davenant stopped here , it had been well for his reputation , but this ill - inftruc- ted admirer of Shakspeare altered the plan of the author's defign , and ...
... best dancers . employed in the exhibition of infernal spi- rits . Had Davenant stopped here , it had been well for his reputation , but this ill - inftruc- ted admirer of Shakspeare altered the plan of the author's defign , and ...
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... best comment on this paffage is to be read in the preface to Sir Walter Ra- leigh's Hiftory of the World , and more particularly in the following quotation from it : For thofe kings , which have fold the blood of others at a low rate ...
... best comment on this paffage is to be read in the preface to Sir Walter Ra- leigh's Hiftory of the World , and more particularly in the following quotation from it : For thofe kings , which have fold the blood of others at a low rate ...
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Page 318 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly' ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 255 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 210 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Page 317 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 265 - I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.
Page 147 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
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Page 279 - But we should reflect, that Lear is not agitated by one passion only, that he is not moved by rage, by grief, and indignation, singly, but by a tumultuous combination of them all together, where all claim to be heard at once, and where one naturally interrupts the progress of the other.
Page 355 - Ant. Come on, my soldier! Our hearts and arms are still the same : I long Once more to meet our foes; that thou and I, Like Time and Death, marching before our troops, May taste fate to them ; mow them out a passage, And, entering where the foremost squadrons yield, Begin the noble harvest of the field.