Eighteenth Centu

Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

Name: Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare
Author: Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962

作者：Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962
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Eighteenth Century
Essays on Shakespeare
Edited by
D. Nichol Smith, M.A.
Glasgow
James MacLehose and Sons
Publishers to the University
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION. SHAKESPEARIAN CRITICISM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
JOHN DENNIS: ON THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS OF SHAKESPEARE. 1711.
ALEXANDER POPE: PREFACE TO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. 1725.
LEWIS THEOBALD: PREFACE TO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. 1733.
SIR THOMAS HANMER: PREFACE TO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. 1744.
WILLIAM WARBURTON: PREFACE TO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. 1747.
SAMUEL JOHNSON: PREFACE TO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. 1765.
The late ingenious and modest Mr. Dodsley declared himself
I will be short in my animadversions; and take them in their order.
I fancy you will be satisfied with one more instance.
But to remember our question—_Is Falstaf
Upon the whole of the passages yet befor
NOTES.
14. Pope omits _former_ (line 5).
17. Pope omits _tyrannical, cruel, and_ (line 36).
19. _But howsoever_, etc. _Hamlet_, i. 5. 84.
22. Pope omits _tho’ as I ... friendship_ and _venture to_ (lines 10-12).
30. _Natura fieret._ Horace, _Ars poetica_, 408.
33. _Offenduntur enim_, etc. _Ars poetica_, 248.
36. _Haec igitur_, etc. Cicero, _Pro M. Marcello_, ix.
40. _Scriptor_, etc. _Ars poetica_, 120.
42. _Colchus_, etc. _Ars poetica_, 118.
44. _Vir bonus_, etc. Horace, _Ars poetica_, 445.
45. _ad Populum Phalerae._ Persius, iii. 30.
56. _Hector’s quoting Aristotle._ _Troilus and Cressida_, ii. 2. 166.
58. _Procrustes._ Cf. _Spectator_, No. 58.
65. _wanted a Comment._ Contrast Rowe, p. 1.
74. _Speret idem._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 241.
77. _Shakespeare ... astonishing force and splendor._ Cf. Pope, p. 50.
78. _Indulging his private sense._ See p. 61.
81. Bentley’s edition of _Paradise Lost_ had appeared in 1732.
85. _Donne._ Cf. Dryden’s criticism of Donne.
86. _a celebrated Writer._ Addison, _Spectator_, No. 297.
94. _Merchant of Venice_, iii. 5. 48.
103. _Rymer_, _Short View of Tragedy_ (1693), pp. 95, 6.
105. _as Mr. Pope hath observed._ Preface, p. 47.
106. _Note_, “See his Letters to me.” These letters are not extant.
116. _Pope._ Preface, p. 48.
119. _instruct by pleasing._ Cf. Horace, _Ars poetica_, 343-4.
124. _Pope._ Preface, p. 56.
131. _Non usque_, etc. Lucan, _Pharsalia_, iii. 138-140.
137. _Pope._ Pp. 52, 53.
138. _Chaucer._ Johnson has probably his eye on Pope’s statement, p. 53.
139. _Boyle._ See Birch’s _Life of Robert Boyle_, 1744, pp. 18, 19.
140. _Dennis._ P. 25.
142. _declined into the vale of years._ _Othello_, iii. 3. 265.
143. _as Dr. Warburton supposes._ P. 96.
148. _Homer’s hero._ “Achilles” in the first edition.
150. _small things make mean men proud._ _2 Henry VI._, iv. 1. 106.
158. _Criticks, I saw_, etc. Pope, _Temple of Fame_, 37-40.
165. _learned Rubbish._ Cf. Pope, _Essay on Criticism_, line 613.
160. “Greatest commendation” should read “greater commendation.”
168. _Hales of Eton._ See p. 8.
169. _Upton_, in his _Critical Observations_, 1748, pp. 3 and 5.
174. _The Sun’s a thief._ _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3. 439, etc.
177. _Heath._ “_Revisal_, pp. 75, 323, and 561” (Farmer).
179. _Ben. Jonson._ “Ode on the _New Inn_,” stanza 3.
183. _The stately sailing Swan._ Thomson, _Spring_, 778-782.
184. _John Taylor._ See notes, pp. 163 and 212.
185. _Pastime of Pleasure._ “Cap. i., 4to, 1555” (Farmer).
188. _Upton._ _Critical Observations_, p. 217.
189. _Till the foul crimes._ _Hamlet_, i. 5. 12.
192. _Holingshed._ Farmer’s quotations from Holinshed are not _literatim_.
194. _Upton._ _Critical Observations_, p. 300.
196. _All hail, Macbeth._ 1. iii. 48-50.
197. _Grey._ _Notes on Shakespeare_, p. vii.; cf. vol. ii., p. 289, etc.
199. _Painter._ See above, p. 178.
202. _Gosson._ See Arber’s reprint, p. 40.
202. _Pope’s list._ At the end of vol. vi. of his edition.
206. _Rowe tells us._ See p. 4.
208. _Master Page, sit._ _2 Henry IV._, v. 3. 30.
209. _What you will._ Act ii., Sc. 1 (vol. i., p. 224, ed. 1856).
211. _Henry the fifth_, Act iii., Sc. 4.
213. _Remember whom ye are_, etc. _Richard III._, v. 3. 315.
214. _Hig, hag, hog._ _Merry Wives_, iv. 1. 44.
215. _primrose path._ _Hamlet_, i. 3. 50; cf. _Macbeth_, ii. 3. 21.
221. _Candide_, chapters 9 and 15.
239. line 28. _which._ The original has _who._
241. _Oldcastle._ See Rowe, p. 5, and note.
247. note. _Be thus when thou art dead._ _Othello_, v. 2. 18.
248. _Barbarian._ See notes on Voltaire, pp. 117, etc.
251. _Macbeth_, i. 5. 18, 49; v. 5. 13; v. 3. 23.
258. _miching malicho._ _Hamlet_, iii. 2. 147.
260. _but a choleric word._ _Measure for Measure_, ii. 2. 130.
270. _just where youth ends._ Cf. _Paradise Lost_, xi. 245, 246.
270. _Old, cold, and of intolerable entrails._ _Merry Wives_, v. 5. 161.
271. _golden fool._ _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3. 18.
INDEX.
Boswell, James, xx, lx, 318, 322, 325, 335
North, Sir Thomas, xxv, 133, 171-174, 178, 330
FOOTNOTES
2 In the _Life of Pope_.
4 Introduction to _Shakespeare Restored_.
9 See the Prologue to _Jane Shore_:
25 This had been recognised also by Whalley (_Enquiry_, 1748, p. 17).
26 See the Dedication of the _Revisal of Shakespeare’s Text_.
28 See Pope’s _Works_, ed. Elwin and Courthope, ix., p. 26.
37 Alluding to the Sea-Voyage of _Fletcher_.
40 See his Letters to me.