Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... paffion , very little modified by particular forms , their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural , and therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities of personal habits , are only ...
... paffion , very little modified by particular forms , their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural , and therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities of personal habits , are only ...
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... paffions to their fources , to unfold the feminal principles of vice and virtue , or found the depths of the heart for the motives of action . All those en- quiries , which from that time that human nature became the fashionable study ...
... paffions to their fources , to unfold the feminal principles of vice and virtue , or found the depths of the heart for the motives of action . All those en- quiries , which from that time that human nature became the fashionable study ...
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... paffions was never poffefsed in a more eminent degree , or displayed in so different inftances . Yet all along , there is feen no labour , no pains to raise them ; no preparation to guide our guess to the effect , or be perceived to ...
... paffions was never poffefsed in a more eminent degree , or displayed in so different inftances . Yet all along , there is feen no labour , no pains to raise them ; no preparation to guide our guess to the effect , or be perceived to ...
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... paffions , appetites , and pursuits . These afford a lesson which can never be too often repeated , or too constantly inculcated ; and , to engage the reader's due attention to it , hath been one of the principal objects of this edition ...
... paffions , appetites , and pursuits . These afford a lesson which can never be too often repeated , or too constantly inculcated ; and , to engage the reader's due attention to it , hath been one of the principal objects of this edition ...
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... paffions designed by this sketch of statuary ! The stile of his comedy is , in geheral , natural to the characters , and easy in itself ; and the wit most commonly sprightly and pleasing , except in those places where he runs into ...
... paffions designed by this sketch of statuary ! The stile of his comedy is , in geheral , natural to the characters , and easy in itself ; and the wit most commonly sprightly and pleasing , except in those places where he runs into ...
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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...