The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 1Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1770 |
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Page viii
... just writer could take , to form the judgment and taste of our nation . For of all English poets Shakespear must be confeffed to be the fairest and fullest subject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most ...
... just writer could take , to form the judgment and taste of our nation . For of all English poets Shakespear must be confeffed to be the fairest and fullest subject for criticism , and to afford the most numerous , as well as most ...
Page viii
... just at the proper places : we are surpriz'd , the moment we weep ; and yet upon reflection find the passion so just , that we should be surpriz'd if we had not wept , and wept at that very moment . How aftonishing is it again , that ...
... just at the proper places : we are surpriz'd , the moment we weep ; and yet upon reflection find the passion so just , that we should be surpriz'd if we had not wept , and wept at that very moment . How aftonishing is it again , that ...
Page xi
... just fuch judges of what is right , as taylors are of what is graceful . And in this view it will be but fair to allow , that most of our author's faults are lefs to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet , than to his right ...
... just fuch judges of what is right , as taylors are of what is graceful . And in this view it will be but fair to allow , that most of our author's faults are lefs to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet , than to his right ...
Page xii
... just to our author ) from a compliance to those wants in others . As to a wrong choice of the fubject , a wrong conduct of the incidents , false thoughts , forc'd expreffions , & c . if these are not to be afcrib'd to the forefaid ...
... just to our author ) from a compliance to those wants in others . As to a wrong choice of the fubject , a wrong conduct of the incidents , false thoughts , forc'd expreffions , & c . if these are not to be afcrib'd to the forefaid ...
Page xvii
... just fit for their stage . 1 THIS edition is said to be printed from the original copies : I believe , they meant those which had lain ever since the author's days in the playhouse , and had from time to time been cut , or added to ...
... just fit for their stage . 1 THIS edition is said to be printed from the original copies : I believe , they meant those which had lain ever since the author's days in the playhouse , and had from time to time been cut , or added to ...
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