A Select Collection of the Beauties of Shakspeare: With Some Account, &c. of the Life of Shakspeareprinted in the year, 1792 - 37 pages |
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... youth , as they were the most vi- gorous , and had the most fire and ftrength of imagination in them , were the best . I would not be thought by this to mean , that his fancy was fo loofe and extravagant , as to be independent on the ...
... youth , as they were the most vi- gorous , and had the most fire and ftrength of imagination in them , were the best . I would not be thought by this to mean , that his fancy was fo loofe and extravagant , as to be independent on the ...
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... youth , nor age ; But as it were an after - dinner's fleep , Dreaming on both ; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palfied Eld ; and when thou'rt old and rich , Thou haft neither heat , affection , limb ...
... youth , nor age ; But as it were an after - dinner's fleep , Dreaming on both ; for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palfied Eld ; and when thou'rt old and rich , Thou haft neither heat , affection , limb ...
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... a cold decree ; fuch a hare is Madness the youth , to skip o'er the meshes of Good Counsel the cripple ! The Merchant of Venice , A. 1. Sc . 2 . E STREAM . STRE A M. The current that with gentle murmur glides THE BEAUTIES or SHAKSPEARE .
... a cold decree ; fuch a hare is Madness the youth , to skip o'er the meshes of Good Counsel the cripple ! The Merchant of Venice , A. 1. Sc . 2 . E STREAM . STRE A M. The current that with gentle murmur glides THE BEAUTIES or SHAKSPEARE .
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Page 23 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Page 24 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not...
Page 27 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 25 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Page 18 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Page 23 - Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange -matters: — to beguile the time, Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it...
Page 16 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 17 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 36 - These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 28 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.