Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... state of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world , in which the lofs of one is the ...
... state of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world , in which the lofs of one is the ...
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... state of elevation above the reach of reason , or of truth , and from the heights of empyrean poetry , may defpife the circumfcriptions of terrestrial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the ...
... state of elevation above the reach of reason , or of truth , and from the heights of empyrean poetry , may defpife the circumfcriptions of terrestrial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the ...
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... state of the age in which he lived , and with his own particular opportunities ; and though to the reader a book be not worse or better for the circumftances of the author , yet as there is always a filent reference of human works to ...
... state of the age in which he lived , and with his own particular opportunities ; and though to the reader a book be not worse or better for the circumftances of the author , yet as there is always a filent reference of human works to ...
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... state of things , knows not how to judge of that which is proposed as its resemblance . Whatever is remote from common appearances is always welcome to vulgar , as to chil- dish credulity ; and of a country unenlightened by learning ...
... state of things , knows not how to judge of that which is proposed as its resemblance . Whatever is remote from common appearances is always welcome to vulgar , as to chil- dish credulity ; and of a country unenlightened by learning ...
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... state of the utmost rudeness ; no essays either in tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither character nor dia- logue were yet understood ...
... state of the utmost rudeness ; no essays either in tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither character nor dia- logue were yet understood ...
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Page 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...