The Dramatic Works, Volume 1at the Clarendon Press, M DCC LXXXVI. To be had of Mess. Rivington, London; Mess. Prince and Cooke and C. Selwin Rann, Oxford; and of Mess. Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham, 1829 |
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Page ix
However we may privately disagree , there is no reason why we should make sport for the world , for such is the only effect of public controversies ; neither should I have leisure at present to pursue such an under, taking , I only ...
However we may privately disagree , there is no reason why we should make sport for the world , for such is the only effect of public controversies ; neither should I have leisure at present to pursue such an under, taking , I only ...
Page x
... and subjoin reasons for my dissent both from you and Mr. Tyrwhitt . You cannot surely suspect me of having wished to commence hostilities with either of you ; but you have made a very singular comment on this remark indeed .
... and subjoin reasons for my dissent both from you and Mr. Tyrwhitt . You cannot surely suspect me of having wished to commence hostilities with either of you ; but you have made a very singular comment on this remark indeed .
Page xiv
He was infected to a lamentable degree with the jealousy of authorship ; and while his approbation was readily bestowed upon those whose competi> > tion he thought he had no reason to ...
He was infected to a lamentable degree with the jealousy of authorship ; and while his approbation was readily bestowed upon those whose competi> > tion he thought he had no reason to ...
Page xv
tion he thought he had no reason to dread , he was fretfully impatient of a brother near the throne : his clear understanding would generally have enabled him to discover what was right ; but the spirit of contradiction could at any ...
tion he thought he had no reason to dread , he was fretfully impatient of a brother near the throne : his clear understanding would generally have enabled him to discover what was right ; but the spirit of contradiction could at any ...
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... his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology , and to weigh his excellencies and defects in equal scales stuffed full of swelling figures and sonorous epithets , ' — will , for obvious reasons , form no part of this publication .
... his author under a load of cumbrous phraseology , and to weigh his excellencies and defects in equal scales stuffed full of swelling figures and sonorous epithets , ' — will , for obvious reasons , form no part of this publication .
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