The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play ; with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsWalker, 1810 - 353 pages |
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Page iii
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Midsummer Night's Dream . LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM , Goswell Street ; FOR JOHN SHARPE , OPPOSITE ALBANY ...
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Midsummer Night's Dream . LONDON : PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM , Goswell Street ; FOR JOHN SHARPE , OPPOSITE ALBANY ...
Page v
... garnish , Is wasteful and ridiculous excess . And wasteful and ridiculous indeed it would be , to say any thing in his praise , when pre- senting the world with such a collection of BEAUTIES , as perhaps is no where to be met.
... garnish , Is wasteful and ridiculous excess . And wasteful and ridiculous indeed it would be , to say any thing in his praise , when pre- senting the world with such a collection of BEAUTIES , as perhaps is no where to be met.
Page xii
... things henceforth demand my attention , and I here , with no smail pleasure , take leave of Shakspeare and the critics ; as this work was begun and finished , before I entered upon the sacred function , in which I am now happily em ...
... things henceforth demand my attention , and I here , with no smail pleasure , take leave of Shakspeare and the critics ; as this work was begun and finished , before I entered upon the sacred function , in which I am now happily em ...
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... things proceed , The place is dignified by the doer's deed : Where great additions * swell , and virtue none , It is a dropsied honour : good alone Is good , without a name ; vileness is sot : The property by what it is should go , Not ...
... things proceed , The place is dignified by the doer's deed : Where great additions * swell , and virtue none , It is a dropsied honour : good alone Is good , without a name ; vileness is sot : The property by what it is should go , Not ...
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... things they go undert : many a maid hath been seduced by them ; and the misery is , ex- ample , that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood , cannot for all that dissuade succession , but that they are limed with the twigs that ...
... things they go undert : many a maid hath been seduced by them ; and the misery is , ex- ample , that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood , cannot for all that dissuade succession , but that they are limed with the twigs that ...
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