The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary: The Trial of the Letter , Alias Y, and Sonnets...C. Bathurst, 1765 - 351 pages |
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... such a be- haviour in any other commerce or intercourse of life would be called ? and whether a man shot dealt gently with , who is only laughed at for it ? I thought then , I had a right to laugh ; and when I found fo many hafty ...
... such a be- haviour in any other commerce or intercourse of life would be called ? and whether a man shot dealt gently with , who is only laughed at for it ? I thought then , I had a right to laugh ; and when I found fo many hafty ...
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... such shameful blunders , as difparage the reft ; if they do not difcredit his title to them , and make them look rather like lucky hits , than the refult of judgment . Thus I have , for the fake of the public , at my own very great ...
... such shameful blunders , as difparage the reft ; if they do not difcredit his title to them , and make them look rather like lucky hits , than the refult of judgment . Thus I have , for the fake of the public , at my own very great ...
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... such a word as cript , for vault- ed ; which he seems to have coined for the purpose : but , if there is , it should be fpelt crypt , not cript ; and comes from crypta , not crypfa ; which indeed would would give cryps , and that might ...
... such a word as cript , for vault- ed ; which he seems to have coined for the purpose : but , if there is , it should be fpelt crypt , not cript ; and comes from crypta , not crypfa ; which indeed would would give cryps , and that might ...
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... Such as it is indeed ! He fhould have taken away life , before he had given it ! The father , having killed his fon , is lamenting those times of mifery and confufion , occafioned by the civil war : the general purport of these lines ...
... Such as it is indeed ! He fhould have taken away life , before he had given it ! The father , having killed his fon , is lamenting those times of mifery and confufion , occafioned by the civil war : the general purport of these lines ...
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... such a critic had the " dreffing of him . But the blunder was a pleasant 66 one . The fenfelefs editors had wrote fables , the fur fo called , for fable , black ; and the critic only ( 6 66 changed this for that : by a like figure , the ...
... such a critic had the " dreffing of him . But the blunder was a pleasant 66 one . The fenfelefs editors had wrote fables , the fur fo called , for fable , black ; and the critic only ( 6 66 changed this for that : by a like figure , the ...
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Page 264 - ... in any other play. And to prove it to sense, let any one read 'aloud an hundred lines in any other play, and an hundred in this, and, if he per'ceives not the tone and cadence of his own voice to be involuntarily altered in the 'latter case from what it was in the former, I would never advise him to give much 'credit to the information of his ears.
Page 266 - Lear Does any here know me? This is not Lear: Does Lear walk thus? Speak thus? Where are his eyes? Either his notion weakens, his discernings Are lethargied - Ha! waking? 'tis not so. Who is it that can tell me who I am?