Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... fubject for his wit , and did not then " raise himself as high above the rest of poets , " Quantum lenta folent inter viburna cupreffi . * It is to be lamented , that such a writer should want a commentary ; that his language should be ...
... fubject for his wit , and did not then " raise himself as high above the rest of poets , " Quantum lenta folent inter viburna cupreffi . * It is to be lamented , that such a writer should want a commentary ; that his language should be ...
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... fubject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most confpicuous instances , both of beau- ties and faults of all forts . But this far exceeds the bounds of a preface , the business of which is only to give an ...
... fubject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most confpicuous instances , both of beau- ties and faults of all forts . But this far exceeds the bounds of a preface , the business of which is only to give an ...
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... fubject : his genius in those low parts is like fome prince of a romance in the disguise of a shepherd or peasant ; a certain greatness and spirit now and then break out , which manifest his higher extraction and qualities . It may be ...
... fubject : his genius in those low parts is like fome prince of a romance in the disguise of a shepherd or peasant ; a certain greatness and spirit now and then break out , which manifest his higher extraction and qualities . It may be ...
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... fubject , a wrong conduct of the incidents , false thoughts , forced expressions , & c . if these are not to be ascribed to the forefaid accidental reasons , they must be charged upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But ...
... fubject , a wrong conduct of the incidents , false thoughts , forced expressions , & c . if these are not to be ascribed to the forefaid accidental reasons , they must be charged upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But ...
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... fubject of our critical enquiries : that however triffing fuch a curiofity at the first view may appear , yet , as for what relates to men of letters , the knowledge of an author may , perhaps , sometimes conduce to the better ...
... fubject of our critical enquiries : that however triffing fuch a curiofity at the first view may appear , yet , as for what relates to men of letters , the knowledge of an author may , perhaps , sometimes conduce to the better ...
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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...