Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... editor's art was not yet applied to modern lan- guages , and our ancestors were accustomed to fo much ... editors , I have preferved the pre- faces , I have likewife borrowed the author's life from Rowe , Rowe , though not ...
... editor's art was not yet applied to modern lan- guages , and our ancestors were accustomed to fo much ... editors , I have preferved the pre- faces , I have likewife borrowed the author's life from Rowe , Rowe , though not ...
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... editors ; and those which he rejected , though , according to the licen- tiousness of the press in those times ... editor . He under- ftood but half his undertaking . The duty of a col- lator is indeed dull , yet , like other ...
... editors ; and those which he rejected , though , according to the licen- tiousness of the press in those times ... editor . He under- ftood but half his undertaking . The duty of a col- lator is indeed dull , yet , like other ...
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... editor , Confidence is the common consequence of fuccefs . They whose excellence of any kind has been loudly celebrated , are ready to conclude , that their powers are univerfal . Pope's edition fell below his own ex- pectations , and ...
... editor , Confidence is the common consequence of fuccefs . They whose excellence of any kind has been loudly celebrated , are ready to conclude , that their powers are univerfal . Pope's edition fell below his own ex- pectations , and ...
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... editor , a man , in my opinion , eminently qualified by nature for such studies . He had , what is the first requisite to emendatory criticism , that intuition by which the poet's intention is im- mediately difcovered , and that ...
... editor , a man , in my opinion , eminently qualified by nature for such studies . He had , what is the first requisite to emendatory criticism , that intuition by which the poet's intention is im- mediately difcovered , and that ...
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... editors , with the filent acquiefcence of the reft , that he thought himself allowed to extend a little further the ... editor it is more difficult to speak . Respect is due to high place , tenderness to living reputation , and ...
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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...