The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 - English drama |
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Page xvii
... fuch fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might reftrain his extravagance : He therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In ...
... fuch fame as might force him upon imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might reftrain his extravagance : He therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In ...
Page xxiii
... it is , gave him fuch delight , that he was content to purchase it , by the facrifice of reafon , propriety and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra a 4 Cleopatra for which he loft the world , and was PREFAC E. xxiii.
... it is , gave him fuch delight , that he was content to purchase it , by the facrifice of reafon , propriety and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra a 4 Cleopatra for which he loft the world , and was PREFAC E. xxiii.
Page xxix
... fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agencourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
... fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agencourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with ...
Page xxx
... fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch ...
... fuch another poet could arife , fhould I very vehemently reproach him , that his first act paffed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely pofitive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and fuch ...
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... fuch an audience was under the ne- ceffity of looking round for firange events and fabu- lous tranfactions , and that incredibility , by which maturer knowledge is offended , was the chief recom- mendation of writings , to unfkilful ...
... fuch an audience was under the ne- ceffity of looking round for firange events and fabu- lous tranfactions , and that incredibility , by which maturer knowledge is offended , was the chief recom- mendation of writings , to unfkilful ...
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