Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... less ; and after I had printed a few plays , refolved to infert none of my own readings in the text . Upon this caution I now congratulate myself , for every day this PREFACE . This method would at once quell a thousand absur. ...
... less ; and after I had printed a few plays , refolved to infert none of my own readings in the text . Upon this caution I now congratulate myself , for every day this PREFACE . This method would at once quell a thousand absur. ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. this caution I now congratulate myself , for every day encreases my doubt of my emendations . Since I have confined my imagination to the mar- gin , it must not be confidered as very ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. this caution I now congratulate myself , for every day encreases my doubt of my emendations . Since I have confined my imagination to the mar- gin , it must not be confidered as very ...
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... myself , but where I could not instruct him , have owned my ignorance . I might easily have ac- cumulated a mass of feeming learning upon easy scenes ; but it ought not to be imputed to negligence , that , where nothing was necessary ...
... myself , but where I could not instruct him , have owned my ignorance . I might easily have ac- cumulated a mass of feeming learning upon easy scenes ; but it ought not to be imputed to negligence , that , where nothing was necessary ...
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... myself , at least , to the limits of common decency . I shall ever think it better to want wit , than to want humanity : and impartial pofterity may , perhaps , be of my opinion . But to return to my fubject , which now calls upon me to ...
... myself , at least , to the limits of common decency . I shall ever think it better to want wit , than to want humanity : and impartial pofterity may , perhaps , be of my opinion . But to return to my fubject , which now calls upon me to ...
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... myself . May it not be objected , why then have you burdened us with these notes ? The answer is obvious , and , if I mistake not , very material . Without fuch notes , these passages in subsequent editions would be liable , through the ...
... myself . May it not be objected , why then have you burdened us with these notes ? The answer is obvious , and , if I mistake not , very material . Without fuch notes , these passages in subsequent editions would be liable , through the ...
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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...