Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE G Virtue Dom 1010 Eta . 53 . Sculport THE PLAYS O F WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . In TEN VOLUMES.
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE G Virtue Dom 1010 Eta . 53 . Sculport THE PLAYS O F WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE . In TEN VOLUMES.
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. hermit may estimate the tranfactions of the world , and a confeffor predict the progress of the paffions . His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the cenfure of criticks ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. hermit may estimate the tranfactions of the world , and a confeffor predict the progress of the paffions . His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the cenfure of criticks ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical fense either tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions of a diftin & t kind ; exhibiting the real state of fublunary nature ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical fense either tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions of a diftin & t kind ; exhibiting the real state of fublunary nature ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. have different habitudes ; and that , upon the whole , all ... Shakespeare's PREFACE .
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. have different habitudes ; and that , upon the whole , all ... Shakespeare's PREFACE .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. # Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of compofition is the fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. # Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of compofition is the fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time ...
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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...