Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... edition divided our au- thor's works into comedies , hiftories , and tragedies , feem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas . An action which ended happily to the principal persons , however ...
... edition divided our au- thor's works into comedies , hiftories , and tragedies , feem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas . An action which ended happily to the principal persons , however ...
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... editions , the greater part were not pub- lished till about seven years after his death , and the few which appeared in his life are apparently thrust into the world without the care of the author , and therefore probably without his ...
... editions , the greater part were not pub- lished till about seven years after his death , and the few which appeared in his life are apparently thrust into the world without the care of the author , and therefore probably without his ...
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... edition was un- dertaken by Rowe ; not because a poet was to be published by a poet , for Rowe seems to have thought very little on correction or explanation , but that our author's works might appear like thofe of his frater- nity ...
... edition was un- dertaken by Rowe ; not because a poet was to be published by a poet , for Rowe seems to have thought very little on correction or explanation , but that our author's works might appear like thofe of his frater- nity ...
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... edition of 1664 , from which they were copied by the later printers . This was a work which Pope feems to have thought unworthy of his abilities , being not able to fupprefs his contempt of the dull duty of an editor . He under- ftood ...
... edition of 1664 , from which they were copied by the later printers . This was a work which Pope feems to have thought unworthy of his abilities , being not able to fupprefs his contempt of the dull duty of an editor . He under- ftood ...
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... edition fell below his own ex- pectations , and he was fo much offended , when he was found to have left any thing for others to do , that he passed the latter part of his life in a ftate of hoftility with verbal criticisin . I have ...
... edition fell below his own ex- pectations , and he was fo much offended , when he was found to have left any thing for others to do , that he passed the latter part of his life in a ftate of hoftility with verbal criticisin . I have ...
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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...