Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... enter into a criticism upon this author ; though to do it effectually , and not fuperficially , would be the best occafion that any just writer could take , to form the judgment and taste of our nation . For of all English poets Shake ...
... enter into a criticism upon this author ; though to do it effectually , and not fuperficially , would be the best occafion that any just writer could take , to form the judgment and taste of our nation . For of all English poets Shake ...
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... Enter three Witches folus . Their French is as bad as their Latin , both in con- struction and spelling : their very Welsh is false . Nothing is more likely than that those palpable blun- ders of Hector's quoting Aristotle , with others ...
... Enter three Witches folus . Their French is as bad as their Latin , both in con- struction and spelling : their very Welsh is false . Nothing is more likely than that those palpable blun- ders of Hector's quoting Aristotle , with others ...
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... enter into a large and complete collection upon Shakespeare's works , fo I will only take the liberty , with all due fubmiffion to the judgment of others , to observe fome of those things I have been pleased with in looking him over ...
... enter into a large and complete collection upon Shakespeare's works , fo I will only take the liberty , with all due fubmiffion to the judgment of others , to observe fome of those things I have been pleased with in looking him over ...
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... enter with applause : an actor's art Can die , and live to att a fecond part ; That's but an exit of mortality , This a re - entrance to a plaudite . J. M. On worthy Master SHAKESPEARE , and his Poems . A mind reflecting ages past ...
... enter with applause : an actor's art Can die , and live to att a fecond part ; That's but an exit of mortality , This a re - entrance to a plaudite . J. M. On worthy Master SHAKESPEARE , and his Poems . A mind reflecting ages past ...
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... Enter a Ship - master and a Boatswain2 . Oatswain MASTER . what cheer ? Boats . Here , master : Maft . Good : fpeak to the mariners . - 3 Fall to't yarely , or we run ourselves aground : bestir , be- [ Exit . ftir . The Tempest ...
... Enter a Ship - master and a Boatswain2 . Oatswain MASTER . what cheer ? Boats . Here , master : Maft . Good : fpeak to the mariners . - 3 Fall to't yarely , or we run ourselves aground : bestir , be- [ Exit . ftir . The Tempest ...
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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...