Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... ftill valued for its rarity . Nations , like individuals , have their infancy . A people newly awakened to literary curiofity , being yet unacquainted with the true ftate of things , knows not how to judge of that which is propofed as ...
... ftill valued for its rarity . Nations , like individuals , have their infancy . A people newly awakened to literary curiofity , being yet unacquainted with the true ftate of things , knows not how to judge of that which is propofed as ...
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... ftill find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our author's extravagancies ...
... ftill find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our author's extravagancies ...
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... obfcure ; his works were transcribed for the players by those who may be fuppofed to have feldom understood them ; they were tranfmitted by copiers equally equally unfkilful , who ftill multiplied errors ; they were PREFACE .
... obfcure ; his works were transcribed for the players by those who may be fuppofed to have feldom understood them ; they were tranfmitted by copiers equally equally unfkilful , who ftill multiplied errors ; they were PREFACE .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. equally unfkilful , who ftill multiplied errors ; they were perhaps fometimes mutilated by the actors , for the fake of fhortening the fpeeches ; and were at laft printed without ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. equally unfkilful , who ftill multiplied errors ; they were perhaps fometimes mutilated by the actors , for the fake of fhortening the fpeeches ; and were at laft printed without ...
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... ftill a nicer diftinction is fhewn between the manners of the Romans in the time of the former , and of the latter . His reading in the ancient hiftorians is no less confpicuous , in many references to particular paffages : and the ...
... ftill a nicer diftinction is fhewn between the manners of the Romans in the time of the former , and of the latter . His reading in the ancient hiftorians is no less confpicuous , in many references to particular paffages : and the ...
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Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 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...