A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare: In which the Ignorance, Or Inattention, of that Editor is Exposed, and the Poet Defended from the Persecution of His CommentatorsJ. Payne, 1765 - 133 pages |
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... shall be thought to have treated both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warburton with an ill - becoming levity , if not with unmerited severity : at least , this he conceives will be the opinion of those , whom an innate consciousness of their own ...
... shall be thought to have treated both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warburton with an ill - becoming levity , if not with unmerited severity : at least , this he conceives will be the opinion of those , whom an innate consciousness of their own ...
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... shall we fay to the fpeeches of Ariel and Gon- zalo , that seem to favour the emendation propofed ? -What , indeed , but that they are little or nothing to the purpose ! The poet was evidently judicious enough to apprehend the fpectator ...
... shall we fay to the fpeeches of Ariel and Gon- zalo , that seem to favour the emendation propofed ? -What , indeed , but that they are little or nothing to the purpose ! The poet was evidently judicious enough to apprehend the fpectator ...
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... shall be , to take what they mistake ; And what poor duty cannot do ,嚼 Noble refpect takes it in might not merit .. * The sense of this paffage [ the apprehended difficulty of which lies in the two laft lines ] as it now ftands , if it ...
... shall be , to take what they mistake ; And what poor duty cannot do ,嚼 Noble refpect takes it in might not merit .. * The sense of this paffage [ the apprehended difficulty of which lies in the two laft lines ] as it now ftands , if it ...
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... shall fee , it will fall pat I told you . Yonder he comes . as Now , Pyramus and Thisbe having met and spied each other through the crevice , for which purpose only the wall was in- troduced , their interview is no fooner over than the ...
... shall fee , it will fall pat I told you . Yonder he comes . as Now , Pyramus and Thisbe having met and spied each other through the crevice , for which purpose only the wall was in- troduced , their interview is no fooner over than the ...
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... shall beat out his brains with billets . ' Vol . I. Page 364 . Oh ! that it were as like as it is true . Dr. Johnson hath , on this paffage , filently adopted the expla- nation of Mr. Edwards , in oppofition to that of Dr. War- burton ...
... shall beat out his brains with billets . ' Vol . I. Page 364 . Oh ! that it were as like as it is true . Dr. Johnson hath , on this paffage , filently adopted the expla- nation of Mr. Edwards , in oppofition to that of Dr. War- burton ...
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Page 72 - These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 13 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 99 - ... of the old reading; then by proposing something, which to superficial readers would seem specious, but which the editor rejects with...
Page i - A Review of Dr. Johnson's new edition of Shakespeare; in which the Ignorance or Inattention of that Editor is exposed, and the Poet defended from the Persecution of his Commentators,
Page 99 - I could have written longer notes, for the art of writing notes is not of difficult attainment. The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity...
Page 112 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown...
Page 57 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not fo unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not fo keen, Becaufe thou art not feen, Altho
Page xv - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own; yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt, which I have not attempted to restore; or obscure, which I have not endeavoured to illustrate.
Page 43 - FOR SEEMLY BEHAVIOUR. First come, first serve.— Then come not late •, And, when arrived, keep your state ; For he, who from these rules shall swerve, Must pay the forfeits.— So, observe.
Page 108 - ... to any end. It is said of a woman, who accepts a worse match than those which she had refused, that ' she has passed through the wood, and at last taken a crooked stick.