The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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Page xiv
... thing that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not fu- perior , to fome of the best of theirs ) would certainly have led him to read and study ...
... thing that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not fu- perior , to fome of the best of theirs ) would certainly have led him to read and study ...
Page xix
... thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topick finely treated by any one of them , he would undertake to fhew fomething upon the fame fubject at least as well written by Shakspeare . The latter part of his life was fpent ...
... thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topick finely treated by any one of them , he would undertake to fhew fomething upon the fame fubject at least as well written by Shakspeare . The latter part of his life was fpent ...
Page xxiii
... thing of that kind in Plautus or Terence . Petruchio , in The Taming of the Shrew , is an uncommon piece of humour . The converfation of Bene- dick and Beatrice , in Much Ado about Nothing , and of Ro- falind , in As you like it , have ...
... thing of that kind in Plautus or Terence . Petruchio , in The Taming of the Shrew , is an uncommon piece of humour . The converfation of Bene- dick and Beatrice , in Much Ado about Nothing , and of Ro- falind , in As you like it , have ...
Page xxv
... thing . " His images are indeed every where fo lively , that the thing he would reprefent ftands full before you , and you poffefs every part of it . I will venture to point out one more , which is , I think , as ftrong and as uncommon ...
... thing . " His images are indeed every where fo lively , that the thing he would reprefent ftands full before you , and you poffefs every part of it . I will venture to point out one more , which is , I think , as ftrong and as uncommon ...
Page xxvi
... thing we have of his . One may obferve , that the unities are kept here , with an exact- nefs uncommon to the liberties of his writing ; though that was what , I fuppofe , he valued himself leaft upon , fince his excellencies were all ...
... thing we have of his . One may obferve , that the unities are kept here , with an exact- nefs uncommon to the liberties of his writing ; though that was what , I fuppofe , he valued himself leaft upon , fince his excellencies were all ...
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