Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... paf- fages , which , though I did not understand them , will perhaps hereafter be explained , having , I hope , illuftrated fome , which others have neglected or mif- taken , sometimes by short remarks , or marginal di- rections , fuch ...
... paf- fages , which , though I did not understand them , will perhaps hereafter be explained , having , I hope , illuftrated fome , which others have neglected or mif- taken , sometimes by short remarks , or marginal di- rections , fuch ...
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... paffage has been conftantly misunderstood , where the jeft or pleafantry has been fuffered to remain long in obfcurity , more instances have been brought to clear the one , or elucidate the other , than appear at first fight to have ...
... paffage has been conftantly misunderstood , where the jeft or pleafantry has been fuffered to remain long in obfcurity , more instances have been brought to clear the one , or elucidate the other , than appear at first fight to have ...
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... paffages , that I occafionally quote from the classicks , shall not be urged as proofs that he knowingly imitated those ori- ginals ; but brought to shew how happily he has ex- préfed himself upon the same topicks . A very learned ...
... paffages , that I occafionally quote from the classicks , shall not be urged as proofs that he knowingly imitated those ori- ginals ; but brought to shew how happily he has ex- préfed himself upon the same topicks . A very learned ...
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... paf- fages : and though it be neither prudence to cenfure , or commend what one does not understand ; yet if a man must do one when he plays the critick , the latter is the more ridiculous office ; and by that Shakespeare fuffers most ...
... paf- fages : and though it be neither prudence to cenfure , or commend what one does not understand ; yet if a man must do one when he plays the critick , the latter is the more ridiculous office ; and by that Shakespeare fuffers most ...
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... any light , no pains have been omitted to fet paffages right , by comparing my author with his originals ; for , as I have frequently observed , he was was a close and accurate copier where - ever his Mr. THEOBALD'S PREFACE .
... any light , no pains have been omitted to fet paffages right , by comparing my author with his originals ; for , as I have frequently observed , he was was a close and accurate copier where - ever his Mr. THEOBALD'S PREFACE .
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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...