Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page vi
... Twas therefore a matter of furprize , at first , when I received my bookfeller's kind information : but upon a fecond confideration , which , they fay , is the beft , my furprize entirely vanished : for , as it seems , this was the ...
... Twas therefore a matter of furprize , at first , when I received my bookfeller's kind information : but upon a fecond confideration , which , they fay , is the beft , my furprize entirely vanished : for , as it seems , this was the ...
Page xiii
... Twas on a fummer's evening in his tent " That day be overcame the Nervii sc Look ! in this place , ran Caffius ' dagger " through ; " See , what a rent the envious Cafca made . " Through this , the well - beloved Brutus stabb'd ...
... Twas on a fummer's evening in his tent " That day be overcame the Nervii sc Look ! in this place , ran Caffius ' dagger " through ; " See , what a rent the envious Cafca made . " Through this , the well - beloved Brutus stabb'd ...
Page lvi
... Twas APPARENTLY THRO ' the Self- fame IGNORANCE , that Milton , following Plato and Virgil , places this river in Hell : " Far off from thefe , a flow and filent stream , " LETHE , the river of oblivion , rolls " Her watry labyrinth ...
... Twas APPARENTLY THRO ' the Self- fame IGNORANCE , that Milton , following Plato and Virgil , places this river in Hell : " Far off from thefe , a flow and filent stream , " LETHE , the river of oblivion , rolls " Her watry labyrinth ...
Page lvii
John Upton. along inquiring what the genuine text was , what ' twas probable the poet did write , & c . Seldom bave I ventured to say what he should write ; nor ever did it come into my head to think of correcting and emending his ...
John Upton. along inquiring what the genuine text was , what ' twas probable the poet did write , & c . Seldom bave I ventured to say what he should write ; nor ever did it come into my head to think of correcting and emending his ...
Page lix
... twas worth while inquiring whether , or no , he deserved to be criti- cifed . And this is chiefly the fubject of the FIRST Book , where I have very fully examined into his art and skill in forming and planning his dramatic poems . And ...
... twas worth while inquiring whether , or no , he deserved to be criti- cifed . And this is chiefly the fubject of the FIRST Book , where I have very fully examined into his art and skill in forming and planning his dramatic poems . And ...
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