The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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Page 112
... reason lavished on the dead , and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the here . sies ...
... reason lavished on the dead , and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the here . sies ...
Page 127
... reason , or of truth , and from the heights of empyrean poetry , may despise the circum- scriptions of terrestrial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be a ...
... reason , or of truth , and from the heights of empyrean poetry , may despise the circum- scriptions of terrestrial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be a ...
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... reason to be afraid of admiration . They are as the Scylla and Charybdis of authors ; those who escape one , often fall by the other . Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes , says Tacitus ; and Virgil desires to wear a charm against those ...
... reason to be afraid of admiration . They are as the Scylla and Charybdis of authors ; those who escape one , often fall by the other . Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes , says Tacitus ; and Virgil desires to wear a charm against those ...
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