Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... tranflated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sen- timent or argumentation ; and such is the power of the ...
... tranflated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sen- timent or argumentation ; and such is the power of the ...
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... tranflated were inaccessible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have some French scenes proves but little ; he might easily procure them to be written , and probably , even though he had known the ...
... tranflated were inaccessible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have some French scenes proves but little ; he might easily procure them to be written , and probably , even though he had known the ...
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... tranflated authors , whom Mr. Pope has thought proper to call The claffics of an age that heard of none . The reader may not be displeased to have the Greek and Roman poets , orators , & c . who had been ren- dered accessible to our ...
... tranflated authors , whom Mr. Pope has thought proper to call The claffics of an age that heard of none . The reader may not be displeased to have the Greek and Roman poets , orators , & c . who had been ren- dered accessible to our ...
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... tranflated out of the Frenche of Claude de Seyffel , Bishop of Marseilles , into the Englishe language , by Tho . Nicolls , Citizeine and Goldsmyth of Lon- don , fol . - - POLYBIUS . - 1550 Hystories of the most famous and worthy ...
... tranflated out of the Frenche of Claude de Seyffel , Bishop of Marseilles , into the Englishe language , by Tho . Nicolls , Citizeine and Goldsmyth of Lon- don , fol . - - POLYBIUS . - 1550 Hystories of the most famous and worthy ...
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... Tranflated out of Fr. into Eng . by Sir John Bourchier , Kt . & c . & c . Other editions of this are in 1534 , 1535 , 1536 , 1537 . 1559 DIONYSIUS . Dionyfius's Description of the Worlde . Englyshed by Tho . Twine , 8vo . Lond . EUCLI D ...
... Tranflated out of Fr. into Eng . by Sir John Bourchier , Kt . & c . & c . Other editions of this are in 1534 , 1535 , 1536 , 1537 . 1559 DIONYSIUS . Dionyfius's Description of the Worlde . Englyshed by Tho . Twine , 8vo . Lond . EUCLI D ...
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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...