Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop cafually from him ; he makes no juft diftribution of good or evil , nor is al- ways careful to fhew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his perfons ...
... muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop cafually from him ; he makes no juft diftribution of good or evil , nor is al- ways careful to fhew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his perfons ...
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... muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worse , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion , which ...
... muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worse , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion , which ...
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... muft not be content to study him in the clofet , he muft look for his meaning fome- times among the fports of the field , and fometimes among the manufactures of the shop . There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent ...
... muft not be content to study him in the clofet , he muft look for his meaning fome- times among the fports of the field , and fometimes among the manufactures of the shop . There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent ...
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... muft have looked upon mankind with perfpicacity , in the highest degree curious and attentive . Other writers borrow their characters from preceding writers , and diverfify them only by the accidental appendages of prefent man- ners ...
... muft have looked upon mankind with perfpicacity , in the highest degree curious and attentive . Other writers borrow their characters from preceding writers , and diverfify them only by the accidental appendages of prefent man- ners ...
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... muft take their fentiments and descriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore juft , their defcriptions are verified by every eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame ...
... muft take their fentiments and descriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore juft , their defcriptions are verified by every eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame ...
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