Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particula . manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may ...
... please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particula . manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may ...
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... please than to inftruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a system of focial duty may be selected , for he that thinks reasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop ...
... please than to inftruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a system of focial duty may be selected , for he that thinks reasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop ...
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... please no more . Imitations produce pain or pleafure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landfcape , the trees are not fuppofed ...
... please no more . Imitations produce pain or pleafure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landfcape , the trees are not fuppofed ...
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... please us by particular speeches , but he alwavs makes us anxious for the event , and has perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting reftlefs and unquenchable curiofity , and compelling him ...
... please us by particular speeches , but he alwavs makes us anxious for the event , and has perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting reftlefs and unquenchable curiofity , and compelling him ...
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... old as his earlieft plays . This however is cer- tain , that he is the first who taught either tragedy or comedy to please , there being no theatrical piece of any any older writer , of which the name is known PREFACE .
... old as his earlieft plays . This however is cer- tain , that he is the first who taught either tragedy or comedy to please , there being no theatrical piece of any any older writer , of which the name is known 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...