Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... . Of the last editor it is more difficult to fpeak . Refpect is due to high place , tenderness to living reputation , and veneration to genius and learning ; but but he cannot be juftly offended at that liberty of PREFACE .
... . Of the last editor it is more difficult to fpeak . Refpect is due to high place , tenderness to living reputation , and veneration to genius and learning ; but but he cannot be juftly offended at that liberty of PREFACE .
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... fpeak out of character : or fometimes perhaps for no better reason , than that a governing player , to have the mouthing of fome favourite speech himself , would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an underling . Profe from verse they ...
... fpeak out of character : or fometimes perhaps for no better reason , than that a governing player , to have the mouthing of fome favourite speech himself , would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an underling . Profe from verse they ...
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... fpeak- ❝ing to him , " Cæfar thou doft me wrong . " He replied : " Cafar did never wrong , but with just cause . " And fuch like , which were ridiculous . But he re- " deemed his vices with his virtues : there was ever " more in him to ...
... fpeak- ❝ing to him , " Cæfar thou doft me wrong . " He replied : " Cafar did never wrong , but with just cause . " And fuch like , which were ridiculous . But he re- " deemed his vices with his virtues : there was ever " more in him to ...
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... fpeak to the mariners . 3 Fall to't yarely , or we run ourselves aground : beftir , be- ftir . [ Exit . ' The Tempest . ] Thefe two plays , The Tempest and The Mid- fummer's Night's Dream , are the noblest efforts of that fublime and ...
... fpeak to the mariners . 3 Fall to't yarely , or we run ourselves aground : beftir , be- ftir . [ Exit . ' The Tempest . ] Thefe two plays , The Tempest and The Mid- fummer's Night's Dream , are the noblest efforts of that fublime and ...
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... fpeak of his quality , where fuch engagements are not made without the confent of the fovereign , Ferdinand is reprefented ( to fhew it a match worth the feeking ) of a moft pious temper and dif- pofition , which would prevent his ...
... fpeak of his quality , where fuch engagements are not made without the confent of the fovereign , Ferdinand is reprefented ( to fhew it a match worth the feeking ) of a moft pious temper and dif- pofition , which would prevent his ...
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