Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial sentiments and vul- gar ideas disappoint the attention , to which they are recommended by ...
... thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial sentiments and vul- gar ideas disappoint the attention , to which they are recommended by ...
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... thought strange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of those laws which have been instituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of ...
... thought strange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of those laws which have been instituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of ...
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... thought murders and treafons real , they would please no more . Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a ...
... thought murders and treafons real , they would please no more . Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a ...
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... thought , as will happen to all who confider the same subjects ; or such remarks on life or axioms of morality as float in conversation , and are transmitted through the world in proverbial sen- tences . I have found it remarked , that ...
... thought , as will happen to all who confider the same subjects ; or such remarks on life or axioms of morality as float in conversation , and are transmitted through the world in proverbial sen- tences . I have found it remarked , that ...
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... thought or to enquiry ; fo many , that he who confiders them is inclined to think that he fees enterprize and perfe- verance predominating over all external agency , and bidding help and hindrance vanish before them . The genius of ...
... thought or to enquiry ; fo many , that he who confiders them is inclined to think that he fees enterprize and perfe- verance predominating over all external agency , and bidding help and hindrance vanish before them . The genius of ...
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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...