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... admiration of Shakespeare is not a new feeling amongst Englishmen , and need not either excite surprise or provoke censure ; it has existed through successive generations , and the feeling once excited , is not likely to be soon extinct ...
... admiration of Shakespeare is not a new feeling amongst Englishmen , and need not either excite surprise or provoke censure ; it has existed through successive generations , and the feeling once excited , is not likely to be soon extinct ...
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... admiration of them has been the foundation of this Club ; I would only observe , that the drama , directed according to its noble design , to shew the beauty of virtue , and to expose the deformity of vice , has been approved of in all ...
... admiration of them has been the foundation of this Club ; I would only observe , that the drama , directed according to its noble design , to shew the beauty of virtue , and to expose the deformity of vice , has been approved of in all ...
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... admiring worshippers have thronged to prostrate themselves at his sacred shrine ; but strange above all it is , that men who have long resided at our venerable seats of learning , and who have drunk so deeply at the inspiring founts of ...
... admiring worshippers have thronged to prostrate themselves at his sacred shrine ; but strange above all it is , that men who have long resided at our venerable seats of learning , and who have drunk so deeply at the inspiring founts of ...
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... admirable manner in which he has pourtrayed every character in every grade of society , from the king to the beggar ... admiration ; and we therefore pay him our ready homage both of tongue and heart . His Tragedy is enriched with the ...
... admirable manner in which he has pourtrayed every character in every grade of society , from the king to the beggar ... admiration ; and we therefore pay him our ready homage both of tongue and heart . His Tragedy is enriched with the ...
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... admiration of its merits , and I pro- mise you all a high treat , as it will be circulated among the members , who will find in it pages of beauties which our Shakespeare himself might have been proud to have written . I propose the ...
... admiration of its merits , and I pro- mise you all a high treat , as it will be circulated among the members , who will find in it pages of beauties which our Shakespeare himself might have been proud to have written . I propose the ...
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Página 76 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 72 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Página x - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 31 - Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains...
Página 137 - 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 heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Página 30 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? O yes, it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys...
Página 80 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 146 - 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.
Página 31 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes? Canst thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king?
Página 73 - The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.