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... reason , and that perhaps the greatest reason , to complain . They have been fucceeded by a race of criticks , who have treated him ftill more injuriously . Under the fpecious pretence of re - establishing his genuine text , they have ...
... reason , and that perhaps the greatest reason , to complain . They have been fucceeded by a race of criticks , who have treated him ftill more injuriously . Under the fpecious pretence of re - establishing his genuine text , they have ...
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... reason to reproach himself with impropriety as to thofe freedoms he had taken with him . But he is fince become a Right Reverend Father of our Church . What should the author have done in this cafe ? Should he have ftruck out the name ...
... reason to reproach himself with impropriety as to thofe freedoms he had taken with him . But he is fince become a Right Reverend Father of our Church . What should the author have done in this cafe ? Should he have ftruck out the name ...
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... reason . Mr. Warburton interprets the word , ignorant , to mean hurtful to reafon ; ' by which interpretation the poet is made to fay , with what elegance let the reader judge , That the fumes which are hurtful to reason , mantle their ...
... reason . Mr. Warburton interprets the word , ignorant , to mean hurtful to reafon ; ' by which interpretation the poet is made to fay , with what elegance let the reader judge , That the fumes which are hurtful to reason , mantle their ...
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... reason for the alarm which is pretended . It may be proper to add , that it is not the business of an editor to im- prove upon his author , but to explain him ; not to father upon him every beauty his own imagination may suggest to him ...
... reason for the alarm which is pretended . It may be proper to add , that it is not the business of an editor to im- prove upon his author , but to explain him ; not to father upon him every beauty his own imagination may suggest to him ...
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... reason for altering the common reading , And blefs it to all fair pofterity . The meaning is , And beftow on it the bleffing of a fair fortune to all pofterity ; ' or , to come nearer the literal conftruction , And blefs it fo that the ...
... reason for altering the common reading , And blefs it to all fair pofterity . The meaning is , And beftow on it the bleffing of a fair fortune to all pofterity ; ' or , to come nearer the literal conftruction , And blefs it fo that the ...
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Page 39 - 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 9 - I have been informed, three very great men concurred in making upon this part, was extremely just ; that Shakspeare had not only found out a new character in his Caliban, but had also devised and adapted a new manner of language for that character.
Page 546 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work ; For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar : and 't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon : O, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet.
Page 25 - I am determined to put forth some five thousand pound, to be paid me five for one, upon the return of myself, my wife, and my dog from the Turk's court in Constantinople.
Page i - Revisal of Shakspeare's Text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by the more modern editors and critics are particularly considered,
Page 137 - Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 180 - but you would conclude that I had no faith either in Jove ** or his attributes, and that my oaths were mere words of " courfe. For that oath can certainly have no tie upon us, " which we fwear by him we profefs to love and honour, " when at the fame time we give the ftrongeft proof of our " difbelief in him, by purfuing a courfe, which we know " will offend and difhonour him.
Page 31 - The cloud- capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The folemn temples, the great globe it felf...
Page 246 - He question'd me ; among the rest, demanded My prisoners in your majesty's behalf. I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold, Out of my grief and my impatience To be so pester'd with a popinjay, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what...
Page 392 - Shake/pears alluded, was not willing that his audience fhould be lefs knowing than himfelf, and has therefore weakened the author's fenfe by the intrufion of a remote and ufelefs image into a fpeech burfting from a man wholly poflefled with his own prefent condition, and therefore not at leifure to explain his own allufions to himfelf.