The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a com- plaint likely to be always continued by those , who ... honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye ...
... honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a com- plaint likely to be always continued by those , who ... honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye ...
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... of taste and changes . of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every tranf mission . [ A 2 ] But But because human judgment , though it be gra- dually PREFACE .
... of taste and changes . of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every tranf mission . [ A 2 ] But But because human judgment , though it be gra- dually PREFACE .
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... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer ; would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from [ C 4 ] from ...
... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer ; would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from [ C 4 ] from ...
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... honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to entangle different plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may bẹ at leaft forgiven him , by those who recollect , that of ...
... honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to entangle different plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may bẹ at leaft forgiven him , by those who recollect , that of ...
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... honour , be it more or less , fhould be transferred to the firft claimant , for his right , and his alone , ftands above difpute ; the second can prove his pretenfions only to himself , nor can himself always diftinguish invention ...
... honour , be it more or less , fhould be transferred to the firft claimant , for his right , and his alone , ftands above difpute ; the second can prove his pretenfions only to himself , nor can himself always diftinguish invention ...
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