Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... fame kind . Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be esti- mated by their proportion to the general and collective , ability of ...
... fame kind . Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be esti- mated by their proportion to the general and collective , ability of ...
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... fame occafion : even where the agency is fupernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in ...
... fame occafion : even where the agency is fupernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in ...
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... fame time , the reveller is hafting to his wine , and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one is fometimes defeated by the frolick of an- other ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without ...
... fame time , the reveller is hafting to his wine , and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one is fometimes defeated by the frolick of an- other ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without ...
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... fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or ...
... fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or ...
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... fame age Sidney , who wanted not the advantages of learning , has , in his Arcadia , confounded the paftoral with the feudal times , the days of innocence , quiet , and fecurity , with thofe of turbulence , violence , and ad- venture ...
... fame age Sidney , who wanted not the advantages of learning , has , in his Arcadia , confounded the paftoral with the feudal times , the days of innocence , quiet , and fecurity , with thofe of turbulence , violence , and ad- venture ...
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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...