Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... states of life , that appear very little favourable to 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 ...
... states of life , that appear very little favourable to 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 ...
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... state . Of the plays which bear the name of Shakespeare in the late editions , the greater part were not pub- lished till about seven years after his death , and the few which appeared in his life are apparently thrust into the world ...
... state . Of the plays which bear the name of Shakespeare in the late editions , the greater part were not pub- lished till about seven years after his death , and the few which appeared in his life are apparently thrust into the world ...
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... state they remained , not as Dr. Warburton supposes , because they were unregarded , but because the editor's art was not yet applied to modern lan- guages , and our ancestors were accustomed to fo much negligence of English printers ...
... state they remained , not as Dr. Warburton supposes , because they were unregarded , but because the editor's art was not yet applied to modern lan- guages , and our ancestors were accustomed to fo much negligence of English printers ...
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... state of Shakespeare's text , shewed that it was extremely corrupt , and gave reason to hope that there were means of reforming it . He collated the old copies , which none had thought to examine before , and restored many lines to ...
... state of Shakespeare's text , shewed that it was extremely corrupt , and gave reason to hope that there were means of reforming it . He collated the old copies , which none had thought to examine before , and restored many lines to ...
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... state , opinions , and modes of language prevailing in every age , and with his author's particular cast of thought , and turn of expression . Such must be his knowledge , and fuch his taste . Conjectural criticifm demands more than ...
... state , opinions , and modes of language prevailing in every age , and with his author's particular cast of thought , and turn of expression . Such must be his knowledge , and fuch his taste . Conjectural criticifm demands more than ...
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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...