Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions , local customs , or tem porary opinions ...
... fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions , local customs , or tem porary opinions ...
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... fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : he therefore indulged his natural disposition , and his disposition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In tragedy ...
... fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : he therefore indulged his natural disposition , and his disposition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In tragedy ...
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... fame age Sidney , who wanted not the advantages of learning , has , in his Arcadia , confounded the pastoral with the feudal times , the days of innocence , quiet , and security , with those of turbulence , violence , and ad- venture ...
... fame age Sidney , who wanted not the advantages of learning , has , in his Arcadia , confounded the pastoral with the feudal times , the days of innocence , quiet , and security , with those of turbulence , violence , and ad- venture ...
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... drama to a new examination . I am almost frighted at my own temerity ; and when I eftimate the fame and the strength of those that maintain the contrary opinion , opinion , am ready to fink down in reverential filence PREFACE .
... drama to a new examination . I am almost frighted at my own temerity ; and when I eftimate the fame and the strength of those that maintain the contrary opinion , opinion , am ready to fink down in reverential filence PREFACE .
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... fame original . As knowledge advances , pleasure passes from the eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labours were exhibited had more skill in pomps or processions than in ...
... fame original . As knowledge advances , pleasure passes from the eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labours were exhibited had more skill in pomps or processions than in ...
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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...