The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon confolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pofterity what the present age ...
... those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon confolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pofterity what the present age ...
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... which all minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a PREFACE .
... which all minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a PREFACE .
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... those of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and do- mestick wisdom . It was faid of ...
... those of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and do- mestick wisdom . It was faid of ...
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... those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the com- mon criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress ...
... those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the com- mon criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress ...
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... those who speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modish innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of fpeech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish ...
... those who speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modish innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of fpeech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish ...
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