Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the event of the war may , without abfurdity , be represented , in the catastrophe , as hap- pening in Pontus ; we know that there is neither war , nor preparation for war ; we ...
... against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the event of the war may , without abfurdity , be represented , in the catastrophe , as hap- pening in Pontus ; we know that there is neither war , nor preparation for war ; we ...
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... against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo easily ...
... against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo easily ...
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... against his knowledge of the original . He was to copy , not what he knew himself , but what was known to his audience . It is moft likely that he had learned Latin fuffi- ciently to make him acquainted with conftruction , but that he ...
... against his knowledge of the original . He was to copy , not what he knew himself , but what was known to his audience . It is moft likely that he had learned Latin fuffi- ciently to make him acquainted with conftruction , but that he ...
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... against those who command reverence ; and fo easily is he praised , whom no man can envy . Our author fell then into the hands of Sir Thomas Hanmer , the Oxford editor , a man , in my opinion , eminently qualified by nature for fuch ...
... against those who command reverence ; and fo easily is he praised , whom no man can envy . Our author fell then into the hands of Sir Thomas Hanmer , the Oxford editor , a man , in my opinion , eminently qualified by nature for fuch ...
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... against which the general voice of the publick has exclaimed , or which their own incongruity imme- diately condemns , and which , I fuppofe , the author himself would defire to be forgotten . Of the rest , to part I have given the ...
... against which the general voice of the publick has exclaimed , or which their own incongruity imme- diately condemns , and which , I fuppofe , the author himself would defire to be forgotten . Of the rest , to part I have given the ...
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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...