Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... expression . Such must be his com- prehenfion of thought , and such his copiousness of language . Out of many readings possible , he must be able to select that which best suits with the state , opinions , and modes of language ...
... expression . Such must be his com- prehenfion of thought , and such his copiousness of language . Out of many readings possible , he must be able to select that which best suits with the state , opinions , and modes of language ...
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... expression ; the most pompous rhymes , and thundering versification . In comedy , nothing was fo fure to please , as mean buffoonry , vile ribaldry , and unmannerly jests of fools and clowns . Yet even in these our author's wit buoys up ...
... expression ; the most pompous rhymes , and thundering versification . In comedy , nothing was fo fure to please , as mean buffoonry , vile ribaldry , and unmannerly jests of fools and clowns . Yet even in these our author's wit buoys up ...
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... expressions , & c . if these are not to be ascribed to the forefaid accidental reasons , they must be charged upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But I think the two dif- advantages which I have mentioned ( to be ...
... expressions , & c . if these are not to be ascribed to the forefaid accidental reasons , they must be charged upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But I think the two dif- advantages which I have mentioned ( to be ...
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... expression too , in two writers of a different age , can hardly happen , without a violent fufpicion of the latter copying from his predeceffor . I shall not therefore run any great rifque of a cenfure , though I should venture to hint ...
... expression too , in two writers of a different age , can hardly happen , without a violent fufpicion of the latter copying from his predeceffor . I shall not therefore run any great rifque of a cenfure , though I should venture to hint ...
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... expressions , would make us believe , the doctor every where gives us his corrections as the original text of the author ; whereas the chief turn of his criticism is plainly to shew the world , that if Milton did not write as he would ...
... expressions , would make us believe , the doctor every where gives us his corrections as the original text of the author ; whereas the chief turn of his criticism is plainly to shew the world , that if Milton did not write as he would ...
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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...