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... Shakespear on the ftage : " Let him ( quoth one , whom I take to be Mr. Theobald , Mift's Journal , June 8 , 1728 ) , publish such an author as he has leaft ftudied , and forget to discharge even the dull duty of an editor . In this ...
... Shakespear on the ftage : " Let him ( quoth one , whom I take to be Mr. Theobald , Mift's Journal , June 8 , 1728 ) , publish such an author as he has leaft ftudied , and forget to discharge even the dull duty of an editor . In this ...
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... octavo , 1712 . P Key to the Dunciad , 3d edit . p . 18 . A lift of perfons , & c . at the end of the forementioned Collection of all the Letters , Effays , & c . Mr. THEOBALD , in cenfuring his Shakespear , declares , D 4 OF AUTHORS . 39.
... octavo , 1712 . P Key to the Dunciad , 3d edit . p . 18 . A lift of perfons , & c . at the end of the forementioned Collection of all the Letters , Effays , & c . Mr. THEOBALD , in cenfuring his Shakespear , declares , D 4 OF AUTHORS . 39.
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Alexander Pope. Mr. THEOBALD , in cenfuring his Shakespear , declares , " He has fo great an esteem for Mr. Pope , and fo high an opinion of his genius and excellencies ; that notwithstanding he profeffes a veneration almost rising to ...
Alexander Pope. Mr. THEOBALD , in cenfuring his Shakespear , declares , " He has fo great an esteem for Mr. Pope , and fo high an opinion of his genius and excellencies ; that notwithstanding he profeffes a veneration almost rising to ...
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... Shakespear Life , p . 2. octavo edit . Life , p . 23. octavo . Shakespear calls it ) Summer - teeming Luft , and 62 RICHARDUS ARISTARCHUS.
... Shakespear Life , p . 2. octavo edit . Life , p . 23. octavo . Shakespear calls it ) Summer - teeming Luft , and 62 RICHARDUS ARISTARCHUS.
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Alexander Pope. Shakespear calls it ) Summer - teeming Luft , and evaporates in the heat of Youth ; doubtless by that refinement it suffers in paffing through those certain Atrainers which our Poet fomewhere speaketh of * . But when it ...
Alexander Pope. Shakespear calls it ) Summer - teeming Luft , and evaporates in the heat of Youth ; doubtless by that refinement it suffers in paffing through those certain Atrainers which our Poet fomewhere speaketh of * . But when it ...
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Page 96 - Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play...
Page 288 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 216 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Page 245 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence...
Page 373 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. 240 Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo ! one vast egg produces human race.
Page 22 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Page 339 - How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Page 229 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Page 231 - Too mad for mere material chains to bind : Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare, Now running round the circle, finds it square.
Page 292 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.