Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... FIRST , CONTAINING , PREFACES . The TEMPEST . The TWO GENTLEMEN of VERONA . The MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR . LONDON : Printed for C. BATHURST , J. BEECROFT , W. STRAHAN , J. and F. RIVINGTON , J. HINTON , L. DAVIS , HAWES , CLARKE and ...
... FIRST , CONTAINING , PREFACES . The TEMPEST . The TWO GENTLEMEN of VERONA . The MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR . LONDON : Printed for C. BATHURST , J. BEECROFT , W. STRAHAN , J. and F. RIVINGTON , J. HINTON , L. DAVIS , HAWES , CLARKE and ...
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... first act at Alexandria , cannot fuppofe that he fees the next at Rome , at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could , in fo fhort a time , have transported him ; he knows with cer- tainty that he has not changed his place ...
... first act at Alexandria , cannot fuppofe that he fees the next at Rome , at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could , in fo fhort a time , have transported him ; he knows with cer- tainty that he has not changed his place ...
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... first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , fuppofes , that when the play opens the fpec- tator really imagines himself at Alexandria , and be- lieves that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt , and that he lives in ...
... first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , fuppofes , that when the play opens the fpec- tator really imagines himself at Alexandria , and be- lieves that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt , and that he lives in ...
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... first act , prepara- tions for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the event of the war may , without abfurdity , be represented , in the catastrophe , as hap- pening in Pontus ; we know that there is neither ...
... first act , prepara- tions for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the event of the war may , without abfurdity , be represented , in the catastrophe , as hap- pening in Pontus ; we know that there is neither ...
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... first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch cen- fures are suitable to the minute and flender criticism of Voltaire : Non ...
... first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch cen- fures are suitable to the minute and flender criticism of Voltaire : Non ...
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