Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... house to sale , carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen . It will not easily be imagined how much Shake speare excels in accommodating his sentiments to real life , but by comparing him with other authors . It was observed of the ...
... house to sale , carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen . It will not easily be imagined how much Shake speare excels in accommodating his sentiments to real life , but by comparing him with other authors . It was observed of the ...
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... house for that which the senate - house would certainly have afforded him . He was inclined to shew an ufurper and a murderer not only odious , but defpicable ; he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities , knowing that kings ...
... house for that which the senate - house would certainly have afforded him . He was inclined to shew an ufurper and a murderer not only odious , but defpicable ; he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities , knowing that kings ...
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... house cannot become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis . Such is the triumphant language with which a cri- tick exults over the misery of an irregular poet , and exults commonly without resistance or reply . It is ...
... house cannot become a plain ; that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis . Such is the triumphant language with which a cri- tick exults over the misery of an irregular poet , and exults commonly without resistance or reply . It is ...
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... houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them with aftonish- ment , who remembered that they were built without the use of iron ? The English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet struggling to emerge from ...
... houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them with aftonish- ment , who remembered that they were built without the use of iron ? The English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet struggling to emerge from ...
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... House - hold right , connyngly tranfl . out of the Greke tongue , & c . by Gentian Hervet , & c . 8vo . Iond . 1532. 8vo . 1534 . 1544. 8νο . 1573 The Arte of Riding from Xenophon , & c . Lond . 4to . 1584 ЕРІСТETUS . The Manuell of ...
... House - hold right , connyngly tranfl . out of the Greke tongue , & c . by Gentian Hervet , & c . 8vo . Iond . 1532. 8vo . 1534 . 1544. 8νο . 1573 The Arte of Riding from Xenophon , & c . Lond . 4to . 1584 ЕРІСТETUS . The Manuell of ...
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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...