Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . VOL . I. [ A ] To To works , however , of which the excellence is T ...
... the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . VOL . I. [ A ] To To works , however , of which the excellence is T ...
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... best understood . The poet , of whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century ...
... best understood . The poet , of whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century ...
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... best . In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse , as his labour is more . The effusions of paf- fion , which exigence forces out , are for the most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention ...
... best . In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse , as his labour is more . The effusions of paf- fion , which exigence forces out , are for the most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention ...
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... best . But the power of nature is only the power of using to any certain purpose the materials which diligence procures , or opportunity supplies . Nature gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected by study and experience ...
... best . But the power of nature is only the power of using to any certain purpose the materials which diligence procures , or opportunity supplies . Nature gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected by study and experience ...
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... best will always be fufficient for present praise , and those who find themselves exalted into fame , are willing to credit their encomiafts , and to spare the labour of contend- ing with themselves . It does not appear , that ...
... best will always be fufficient for present praise , and those who find themselves exalted into fame , are willing to credit their encomiafts , and to spare the labour of contend- ing with themselves . It does not appear , that ...
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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...