The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being a Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear: Collected from the Notes in that Celebrated Work, and Proper to be Bound Up with itThis work contains severe criticism of Warburton's work. Warburton was involved in several literary controversies. |
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Page 116 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
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Page 226 - 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...
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Page 31 - ... both, when they came to try them upon English authors. Secondly, To deter the unlearned writer from wantonly trifling with an art he is a stranger to, at the expence of his own reputation, and the integrity of the text of established authors. But these uses may be well supplied by what is occasionally said upon the subject, in the course of the following remarks.
Page 20 - He may find out a bawdy or immoral meaning in his Author where there does not appear to be any hint that way.
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| Title | The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being a Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear: Collected from the Notes in that Celebrated Work, and Proper to be Bound Up with it The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being a Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear: Collected from the Notes in that Celebrated Work, and Proper to be Bound Up with it, Charles Bathurst |
| Author | Thomas Edwards |
| Contributor | Charles Bathurst |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, opposite St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street., 1758 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 31 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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