Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Volumen39

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G. Reimer, 1903
Vols. 6, 11, 24, and 29-30 include: "Katalog der Bibliothek der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft."

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Página 193 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Página 206 - I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Página 12 - He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place.
Página 19 - An original may be said to be of a vegetable nature, it rises spontaneously from the vital root of genius ; it grows, it is not made : imitations are often a sort of manufacture wrought up by those mechanics, art and labour, out of pre-existent materials not their own.
Página 268 - The first that broke silence was good old Ben, Prepared before with canary wine, And he told them plainly he deserved the bays, For his were called works, where others were but plays.
Página 33 - Samson was very strong, to his own hurt. Blind to the nature of tragedy, he pulled down all antiquity on his head, and buried himself under it. " Is this 'care's incumbent cloud,' or * the frozen obstructions of age?
Página 294 - To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and under him My Genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
Página 31 - Imitation is inferiority confessed ; emulation is superiority contested or denied ; imitation is servile, emulation generous ; that fetters, this fires; that may give a name, this, a name immortal. This made Athens to succeeding ages the rule of taste, and the standard of perfection. Her men of genius struck fire against each other ; and kindled, by conflict, into glories, which no time shall extinguish.
Página 23 - Of genius there are two species, an earlier and a later; or call them infantine and adult. An adult genius comes out of nature's hand, as Pallas out of Jove's head, at full growth and mature: Shakespeare's genius was of this kind: on the contrary, Swift stumbled at the threshold, and set out for distinction on feeble knees.
Página 39 - ... not above being the better for good impressions from a dying friend. He came ; but life now glimmering in the socket, the dying friend was silent : after a decent and proper pause, the youth said, ' Dear Sir ! you sent for me : I believe, and I hope, that you have some commands ; I shall hold them most sacred.

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