Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. 1 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 47166A ASTOR . LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION : R 1922 L T : : : PREFACE . T HAT praises are without reason lavished on.
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. 1 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 47166A ASTOR . LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION : R 1922 L T : : : PREFACE . T HAT praises are without reason lavished on.
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. PREFACE . T. HAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead , and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a com- plaint likely to be always continued by ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. PREFACE . T. HAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead , and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a com- plaint likely to be always continued by ...
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... praise of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him , may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies , by reading human ...
... praise of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him , may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies , by reading human ...
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... praise which they expect , than that the changes of action be fo prepared as to be understood , that the incidents be various and af- fecting , and the characters consistent , natural , and distinct . No other unity is intended , and ...
... praise which they expect , than that the changes of action be fo prepared as to be understood , that the incidents be various and af- fecting , and the characters consistent , natural , and distinct . No other unity is intended , and ...
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... praise is rigoroufly juft . The diffyllable termination , which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama , is to be found , though , I think , not in Gorboduc , which is confessedly before our author ; yet in Hieronnymo , of which ...
... praise is rigoroufly juft . The diffyllable termination , which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama , is to be found , though , I think , not in Gorboduc , which is confessedly before our author ; yet in Hieronnymo , of which ...
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