Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... These are the petty cavils of petty minds ; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , satisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing co- mick and ...
... These are the petty cavils of petty minds ; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , satisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing co- mick and ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of composition is the same ; an interchange of feriousness and merriment , by which the mind is softened at one time ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of composition is the same ; an interchange of feriousness and merriment , by which the mind is softened at one time ...
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... These obfervations are to be considered not as un- exceptionably conftant , but as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet not wholly without ruggedness or ...
... These obfervations are to be considered not as un- exceptionably conftant , but as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet not wholly without ruggedness or ...
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... these precepts have not been so easily received , but for better reasons than I have yet been able to find . The refult of my enquiries , in which it would be ludi . crous to boast of impartiality , is , that the unities of time and ...
... these precepts have not been so easily received , but for better reasons than I have yet been able to find . The refult of my enquiries , in which it would be ludi . crous to boast of impartiality , is , that the unities of time and ...
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... These are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuperfluously copious , nor fcrupuloufly referved , and hope that I have made my author's meaning acceffible to many , who before were ...
... These are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuperfluously copious , nor fcrupuloufly referved , and hope that I have made my author's meaning acceffible to many , who before were ...
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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...