Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... pleasure is obtained ; yet , thus unassisted by interest or passion , they have past through variations of tafte and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every tranf ...
... pleasure is obtained ; yet , thus unassisted by interest or passion , they have past through variations of tafte and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every tranf ...
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... pleasures of sudden wonder are foon exhausted , and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth . : : Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his ...
... pleasures of sudden wonder are foon exhausted , and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth . : : Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his ...
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... pleasure consists in variety . The players , who in their edition divided our au- thor's works into comedies , histories , and tragedies , feem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas . An action ...
... pleasure consists in variety . The players , who in their edition divided our au- thor's works into comedies , histories , and tragedies , feem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas . An action ...
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... 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 superficial dies , bright and pleasing for a little while ...
... 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 superficial dies , bright and pleasing for a little while ...
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... from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received , by difcovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor . The The necessity of observing the unities of time and place PREFACE .
... from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received , by difcovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor . The The necessity of observing the unities of time and place 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...