Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... firft building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was round or fquare ; but whether it was fpacious or lofty must have been referred to time . The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be ...
... firft building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was round or fquare ; but whether it was fpacious or lofty must have been referred to time . The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be ...
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... by mixing co- mick and tragick fcenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be firft ftated , and then examined . Shake- Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical PREFACE .
... by mixing co- mick and tragick fcenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be firft ftated , and then examined . Shake- Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical PREFACE .
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... firft defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From ...
... firft defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From ...
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... firft Athens , and then Sicily , which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens , but a modern theatre . By fuppofition , as place is introduced , time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapfes for the most part ...
... firft Athens , and then Sicily , which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens , but a modern theatre . By fuppofition , as place is introduced , time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapfes for the most part ...
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... firft , whoever they be , muft take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore just , their descriptions are verified by every eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft ...
... firft , whoever they be , muft take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore just , their descriptions are verified by every eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft ...
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