The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
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... fuch an undertaking if he had not found a confiderable part fo done to his hands . From what caufes it proceeded that the works of this Author in the first publication of them were more injured and abufed than perhaps any that ever pass ...
... fuch an undertaking if he had not found a confiderable part fo done to his hands . From what caufes it proceeded that the works of this Author in the first publication of them were more injured and abufed than perhaps any that ever pass ...
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... fuch in Mr. Pope's Edition ; and it were to be wished that more had then undergone the fame fentence . The promoter of the prefent Edition bath ventured to difcard but few more upon his own judgment , the most confiderable of which is ...
... fuch in Mr. Pope's Edition ; and it were to be wished that more had then undergone the fame fentence . The promoter of the prefent Edition bath ventured to difcard but few more upon his own judgment , the most confiderable of which is ...
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... fuch as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be Twins , will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct . To this life and variety of Character , we must add the wonderful Prefervation of it ; which is fuch ...
... fuch as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be Twins , will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct . To this life and variety of Character , we must add the wonderful Prefervation of it ; which is fuch ...
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... fuch as are not properly Defects , but Superfœtations : and arife not from want of learning or reading , but from want of thinking or judging : or rather ( to be more just to our Author ) from a compliance to those wants in others . As ...
... fuch as are not properly Defects , but Superfœtations : and arife not from want of learning or reading , but from want of thinking or judging : or rather ( to be more just to our Author ) from a compliance to those wants in others . As ...
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... fuch a one is endued , the more he is in danger of fubmitting and conforming to others , against his own better judg- ment . But as to his Want of Learning , it may be ne- ceffary to say something more : There is certainly . a vaft ...
... fuch a one is endued , the more he is in danger of fubmitting and conforming to others , against his own better judg- ment . But as to his Want of Learning , it may be ne- ceffary to say something more : There is certainly . a vaft ...
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 66 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...