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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We may suppose that Johnson himself did not estimate these observations very highly , for he tells us that “ in the plays which are condemned there may be much to be praised , and in those which are praised much to be condemned ' !
We may suppose that Johnson himself did not estimate these observations very highly , for he tells us that “ in the plays which are condemned there may be much to be praised , and in those which are praised much to be condemned ' !
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Had I been any god of power , I would Have sunk the sea within the earth , or e'er 1 It should the good ship so have swallowed , and The freighting 2 souls within her . Pro . Be collected : No more amazement : tell your ...
Had I been any god of power , I would Have sunk the sea within the earth , or e'er 1 It should the good ship so have swallowed , and The freighting 2 souls within her . Pro . Be collected : No more amazement : tell your ...
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You have often Begun to tell me what I am ; but stopp'd , And left me to a bootless inquisition ; Concluding , Stay , not yet . - Pro . The hour's now come ; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear ; Obey , and be attentive .
You have often Begun to tell me what I am ; but stopp'd , And left me to a bootless inquisition ; Concluding , Stay , not yet . - Pro . The hour's now come ; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear ; Obey , and be attentive .
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He being thus lorded , Not only with what my revenue yielded , But what my power might else exact , - like one , Who having , unto truth , by telling of it , Made such a sinner of his memory , To credit his own lie 11 , - he did believe ...
He being thus lorded , Not only with what my revenue yielded , But what my power might else exact , - like one , Who having , unto truth , by telling of it , Made such a sinner of his memory , To credit his own lie 11 , - he did believe ...
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... Perform'd to point 20 the tempest that I bade thee ? Ari . To every article . I boarded the king's ship ; now on the beak 21 > 4 Now in the waist , the deck ,. 18 This is imitated in Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdens : --- tell ...
... Perform'd to point 20 the tempest that I bade thee ? Ari . To every article . I boarded the king's ship ; now on the beak 21 > 4 Now in the waist , the deck ,. 18 This is imitated in Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdens : --- tell ...
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