The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd, Volum 2 |
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Pàgina 29
... Whose white investments figure innocence . The difficulty is in the word applied to lank - lean cheeks ; it muft there be taken metaphorically : we know how vague our author is in his use of metaphors , and we know how often he ufes one ...
... Whose white investments figure innocence . The difficulty is in the word applied to lank - lean cheeks ; it muft there be taken metaphorically : we know how vague our author is in his use of metaphors , and we know how often he ufes one ...
Pàgina 55
... whose shade the ramping lion slept ; ( 9 ) Thus yields , & c . ] For this grand and noble fimile , Shake- Spear is plainly indebted there , where , for the first time thro ' this work , I am obliged , and gladly , to acknowledge him out ...
... whose shade the ramping lion slept ; ( 9 ) Thus yields , & c . ] For this grand and noble fimile , Shake- Spear is plainly indebted there , where , for the first time thro ' this work , I am obliged , and gladly , to acknowledge him out ...
Pàgina 56
William Shakespeare William Dodd. Whose top - branch over peer'd Jove's spreading tree ; And kept low fhrubs from winter's pow'rful wind . Thefe eyes , that now are dim'd with death's black veil , Have been as piercing as the mid - day ...
William Shakespeare William Dodd. Whose top - branch over peer'd Jove's spreading tree ; And kept low fhrubs from winter's pow'rful wind . Thefe eyes , that now are dim'd with death's black veil , Have been as piercing as the mid - day ...
Pàgina 77
... Whose veins bound richer blood , than lady Blanch ? SCENE VI . On Commodity , or Self - Intereft . Rounded in the ear With that fame purpofe - changer , that fly devil , That broker , that ftill breaks the pate of faith , That daily ...
... Whose veins bound richer blood , than lady Blanch ? SCENE VI . On Commodity , or Self - Intereft . Rounded in the ear With that fame purpofe - changer , that fly devil , That broker , that ftill breaks the pate of faith , That daily ...
Pàgina 97
... whose modefty made him fometimes diffident in his own genius , but whole exquifite judgment always led him to the fafeft guides , has paraphrafed this fine defcription : but we are no longer to expect thofe terrible graces , which he ...
... whose modefty made him fometimes diffident in his own genius , but whole exquifite judgment always led him to the fafeft guides , has paraphrafed this fine defcription : but we are no longer to expect thofe terrible graces , which he ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 101 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Pàgina 101 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Pàgina 142 - Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Pàgina 239 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Pàgina 102 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Pàgina 122 - Alas! sir, are you here? things that love night love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves. Since I was man such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never remember to have heard; man's nature cannot carry the affliction nor the fear.
Pàgina 52 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Pàgina 93 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Pàgina 110 - O Cassius ! you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire, Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Pàgina 116 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...