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... fateri , - within half a century , ( when the present race of voluminous criticks is extinct ) cannot fail to be remedied by a judicious and frugal selection from the - labours of us all . Noris such an event to b2 ADVERTISEMENT . xix.
... fateri , - within half a century , ( when the present race of voluminous criticks is extinct ) cannot fail to be remedied by a judicious and frugal selection from the - labours of us all . Noris such an event to b2 ADVERTISEMENT . xix.
Page xx
... criticks . The art of writing notes , as Dr. Johnfon has pleasantly observed in his preface , p . 255 , † is not of difficult attainment . Additional hundreds might therefore be supplied ; for as often as a various reading , whether ...
... criticks . The art of writing notes , as Dr. Johnfon has pleasantly observed in his preface , p . 255 , † is not of difficult attainment . Additional hundreds might therefore be supplied ; for as often as a various reading , whether ...
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... of what I have heard from your mouth , fir , about the noble triumph he gained over all the ancients , by the judge- ment of the ablest criticks of that time . The latter part of his life was spent , as OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . 15.
... of what I have heard from your mouth , fir , about the noble triumph he gained over all the ancients , by the judge- ment of the ablest criticks of that time . The latter part of his life was spent , as OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . 15.
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... criticks in the attempt are loft , " When most they'rail , know then , they envy most . " See It appears from a circumftance mentioned by Dryden , that these verses were written after the year 1683 : probably after Rhymer's book had ...
... criticks in the attempt are loft , " When most they'rail , know then , they envy most . " See It appears from a circumftance mentioned by Dryden , that these verses were written after the year 1683 : probably after Rhymer's book had ...
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... criticks who renounce tragi - comedy as barbarous , I fear , speak more from notions which they have formed in their clofets , than any well - built theory deduced from expe- rience of what pleases or difpleases , which ought to be the ...
... criticks who renounce tragi - comedy as barbarous , I fear , speak more from notions which they have formed in their clofets , than any well - built theory deduced from expe- rience of what pleases or difpleases , which ought to be the ...
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