The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two gentleman of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Measure for measureJ. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman and T. Shewell, H. Lintott, C. Hitch, J. Brindley, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, R. Wellington, E. New, and B. Dod., 1747 |
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... Author's Life , interlarded with fome com- mon - place Scraps from his Writings . The Truth is , Shakespear's Condition was yet but ill understood . fromCondition understood ; The Nonfenfe , now , by confent , Vill PREFACE .
... Author's Life , interlarded with fome com- mon - place Scraps from his Writings . The Truth is , Shakespear's Condition was yet but ill understood . fromCondition understood ; The Nonfenfe , now , by confent , Vill PREFACE .
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... fome accidental Connexions with these two Gentlemen , it will be incumbent on me to be a little more particular concerning them . The One was recommended to me as a poor Man , the Other as a poor Critic and to each of them , at ...
... fome accidental Connexions with these two Gentlemen , it will be incumbent on me to be a little more particular concerning them . The One was recommended to me as a poor Man , the Other as a poor Critic and to each of them , at ...
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... fome who would needs exer- cife it without either natural or acquired Talents ; and by the ill Succefs of others , who feemed to have loft both , when they came to try them upon English Authors . Secondly , To deter the un - USE learned ...
... fome who would needs exer- cife it without either natural or acquired Talents ; and by the ill Succefs of others , who feemed to have loft both , when they came to try them upon English Authors . Secondly , To deter the un - USE learned ...
Page xv
... fome of them obferving a Darkness , that pervaded his whole Expreffion , have cenfured him for Confu- fion of Ideas and Inaccuracy of reafoning . In the Neighing of a Horfe , ( fays Rymer ) or in the Growl ing of a Mastiff there is a ...
... fome of them obferving a Darkness , that pervaded his whole Expreffion , have cenfured him for Confu- fion of Ideas and Inaccuracy of reafoning . In the Neighing of a Horfe , ( fays Rymer ) or in the Growl ing of a Mastiff there is a ...
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... fome latent conceit not unworthy of his Genius . III . The third and laft fort of Notes is con- cerned in a critical explanation of the Author's Beauties and Defects ; but chiefly of his Beauties , whether in Stile , Thought , Sentiment ...
... fome latent conceit not unworthy of his Genius . III . The third and laft fort of Notes is con- cerned in a critical explanation of the Author's Beauties and Defects ; but chiefly of his Beauties , whether in Stile , Thought , Sentiment ...
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Page 41 - 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.
Page 382 - 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 lxviii - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!
Page 21 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 366 - Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
Page 49 - 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 33 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 153 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 155 - 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 293 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields. A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle...