Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page v
... or whether the whole does not depend on meer whim , caprice , or fashion ? Befide , I began to be apprehenfive for the fate of fome of my most favourite English authors . We have few books in our language that merit a A 3 We THE ...
... or whether the whole does not depend on meer whim , caprice , or fashion ? Befide , I began to be apprehenfive for the fate of fome of my most favourite English authors . We have few books in our language that merit a A 3 We THE ...
Page vii
... human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increasing upon me , fuck A 4 fuch as even the most inveterate enemy would pity , PREFACE . vii like the famous Virgilian lots, appeared full in my ...
... human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increasing upon me , fuck A 4 fuch as even the most inveterate enemy would pity , PREFACE . vii like the famous Virgilian lots, appeared full in my ...
Page viii
John Upton. fuch as even the most inveterate enemy would pity , did not an unusual infolence deftroy every degree of it ; then I thought it high time , and but common justice to Shakespeare , to endeavour to check , if poffible , the ...
John Upton. fuch as even the most inveterate enemy would pity , did not an unusual infolence deftroy every degree of it ; then I thought it high time , and but common justice to Shakespeare , to endeavour to check , if poffible , the ...
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... most correct English translation that ever was made ? And the Lions - brake all their bones or ever " they came at the bottom of the den . " Dan . VI , 14.But let us fee this bumorous prophecy . " When priests are more in words than ...
... most correct English translation that ever was made ? And the Lions - brake all their bones or ever " they came at the bottom of the den . " Dan . VI , 14.But let us fee this bumorous prophecy . " When priests are more in words than ...
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... most difficult word of all , aldir , poor critic - like , he has entirely omitted : 3dly , the most eafy word of all , lievest , be knows little or nothing of . Now aldir - lievest fignifies nothing else but dearest of all : In ...
... most difficult word of all , aldir , poor critic - like , he has entirely omitted : 3dly , the most eafy word of all , lievest , be knows little or nothing of . Now aldir - lievest fignifies nothing else but dearest of all : In ...
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