Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet struggling to emerge from barbarity . The philology of Italy had been transplanted hither in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; and the learned lan- reign PREFACE . opinion, am ready to ...
... English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet struggling to emerge from barbarity . The philology of Italy had been transplanted hither in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; and the learned lan- reign PREFACE . opinion, am ready to ...
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... English histories he took from English chro- nicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they supplied him with new fubjects ; he dilated fome of Plutarch's lives into plays ...
... English histories he took from English chro- nicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they supplied him with new fubjects ; he dilated fome of Plutarch's lives into plays ...
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... English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not tranflated were inacceffible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have fome ...
... English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not tranflated were inacceffible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have fome ...
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... English wri- ters ; and poetry had been cultivated , not only with diligence , but fuccefs . This was a stock of know- ledge fufficient for a mind fo capable of appropriating and improving it . But the greater part of his excellence was ...
... English wri- ters ; and poetry had been cultivated , not only with diligence , but fuccefs . This was a stock of know- ledge fufficient for a mind fo capable of appropriating and improving it . But the greater part of his excellence was ...
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... is not much indebted , there were no writers in English , and perhaps not many in other modern languages , which fhewed life in its native colours . [ C 2 ] The The contest about the original benevolence or ma- lignity of PREFACE .
... is not much indebted , there were no writers in English , and perhaps not many in other modern languages , which fhewed life in its native colours . [ C 2 ] The The contest about the original benevolence or ma- lignity of PREFACE .
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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...
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