Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... obscure the scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rished ; his works support no opinion with arguments , nor supply any ...
... obscure the scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rished ; his works support no opinion with arguments , nor supply any ...
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... obscurity , on a sudden withdraw their luftre , and leave mortals again to grope their way . These elevations and depressions of renown , and the contradictions to which all improvers of know- ledge must for ever be exposed , since they ...
... obscurity , on a sudden withdraw their luftre , and leave mortals again to grope their way . These elevations and depressions of renown , and the contradictions to which all improvers of know- ledge must for ever be exposed , since they ...
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... obscure , which I have not endeavoured to illustrate . In many I have failed like others ; and from many , after all my efforts , I have retreated , and confefsed the repulse . I have not passed over , with affected superiority , what ...
... obscure , which I have not endeavoured to illustrate . In many I have failed like others ; and from many , after all my efforts , I have retreated , and confefsed the repulse . I have not passed over , with affected superiority , what ...
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... obscurity , through integrity and corruption ; let him preferve his comprehenfion of the dialogue and his intereft in the fable . And when the pleasures of novelty have ceased , let him attempt exactness , and read the commentators ...
... obscurity , through integrity and corruption ; let him preferve his comprehenfion of the dialogue and his intereft in the fable . And when the pleasures of novelty have ceased , let him attempt exactness , and read the commentators ...
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... obscurity by tumults and revolutions , and have never fince attracted curiofity . The utter neglect of ancient English literature continued fo long , that many books may be supposed to be loft ; and that curiosity , which has been now ...
... obscurity by tumults and revolutions , and have never fince attracted curiofity . The utter neglect of ancient English literature continued fo long , that many books may be supposed to be loft ; and that curiosity , which has been now ...
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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...