The Winter's Tale: ShakespeareJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 432 pages |
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ABBOTT Anon Antigonus Autolycus Bartholomew Fair beauty Bellaria Bohemia called Camillo CAPELL character child Cleom Clown Coll COLLIER conj Cotgrave daughter death DEIGHTON Dorastus Dorastus and Fawnia Dyce Dyce ii edition editors Egistus emendation eyes father Fawnia feare felfe Florizel Folio giue gives HALLIWELL Hanmer hath haue heart Hermione honour Huds jealousy Johns JOHNSON King Ktly Lady Leontes Lettsom London Lord MALONE means moſt muſt Othello Pandosto Paulina Perdita phrase play poet Polixenes Pope Pope+ Prince queen quotes R. G. WHITE Rann Rlfe Rowe et seq Rowe+ ſay says scene ſee sense Shakespeare ſhall ſhe shee Shep Shepherd ſhould Sicilia Sing Sonne ſpeake speech STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS supposed thee Theob THEOBALD theſe thou thought vpon WALKER Crit Warb Warburton wife Winter's Tale word
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Page 38 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 380 - ... gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it. It will be thought strange...
Page 185 - I told you what would come of this : beseech you, Of your own state take care : this dream of mine, — Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, But milk my ewes and weep.
Page 381 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Page 64 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 382 - As nothing is essential to the fable but unity of action, and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions, and by circumscribing the extent of the drama lessen its variety, I cannot think it much to be lamented that they were not known by him, or not observed. Nor, if such another poet could arise, should I very vehemently reproach him that his first act passed at Venice, and his next in Cyprus...
Page 382 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Page 381 - He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled : he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare is the poet of nature; but his plan has commonly, what Aristotle requires, a beginning, a middle, and an end ; one event is concatenated with another, and the conclusion follows by easy consequence.
Page 380 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 380 - ... and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal; for...