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 strán (strany) |
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... shall never have the bleffing of God till I have iffue of my body ; for , they say , bearns are bleffings . The clown's opinion correfponds with that of all mankind , and more particular- ly with the Jews . They hold barrenness to be a ...
... shall never have the bleffing of God till I have iffue of my body ; for , they say , bearns are bleffings . The clown's opinion correfponds with that of all mankind , and more particular- ly with the Jews . They hold barrenness to be a ...
Strana 41
... shall not deny ; but this I will venture to fay , that he is fo widely different from any character we see at present , that no comic poet of this age will undertake his revival , even with confiderable alterations ; he is fo ...
... shall not deny ; but this I will venture to fay , that he is fo widely different from any character we see at present , that no comic poet of this age will undertake his revival , even with confiderable alterations ; he is fo ...
Strana 50
... shall have my choice of peasants or country clowns , and pick out a fon from them , than marry my daughter to fo worthless a fellow as this , whofe knell I would most willingly ring . ' I do not pre- fume to give this as the infallible ...
... shall have my choice of peasants or country clowns , and pick out a fon from them , than marry my daughter to fo worthless a fellow as this , whofe knell I would most willingly ring . ' I do not pre- fume to give this as the infallible ...
Strana 62
... Shall find applaufe on this corrupted stage . But , if you pay the great arrears of praise , So long fince due to my much - injur❜d plays , From all paft crimes I first will fet you free , And then infpire fome one to write like me ...
... Shall find applaufe on this corrupted stage . But , if you pay the great arrears of praise , So long fince due to my much - injur❜d plays , From all paft crimes I first will fet you free , And then infpire fome one to write like me ...
Strana 120
... Shall he dwindle , peak , and pine . The Highlands of Scotland feem to have been the favourite refort of witches and inchanters , where they are fupposed to have performed their most powerful charms and diabolical incantations ; and ...
... Shall he dwindle , peak , and pine . The Highlands of Scotland feem to have been the favourite refort of witches and inchanters , where they are fupposed to have performed their most powerful charms and diabolical incantations ; and ...
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Dramatic Micellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on ..., Zväzok 2 Thomas Davies Úplné zobrazenie - 1783 |
Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several ... Thomas Davies Úplné zobrazenie - 1783 |
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Strana 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.
Strana 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!
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 20 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Strana 128 - He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about Him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover Him.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.