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Page vii
Homer himself drew not his art fo immediately from the fountains of nature ; it proceeded through Egyptian ftrainers and channels , and came to him not without fome tincture of the learning , or fome caft of the models , of thofe before ...
Homer himself drew not his art fo immediately from the fountains of nature ; it proceeded through Egyptian ftrainers and channels , and came to him not without fome tincture of the learning , or fome caft of the models , of thofe before ...
Page viii
poetry of Shakespear was infpiration indeed : he is not fo much an imitator , as an inftrument , of nature ; and ' tis not so just to say , that he speaks from her , as that she speaks through him . HIS . characters are fo much nature ...
poetry of Shakespear was infpiration indeed : he is not fo much an imitator , as an inftrument , of nature ; and ' tis not so just to say , that he speaks from her , as that she speaks through him . HIS . characters are fo much nature ...
Page ix
... world by intuition , to have look'd through human nature at one glance , and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion , that the philofopher , and even the man of the world , may be born , as well as the poet .
... world by intuition , to have look'd through human nature at one glance , and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion , that the philofopher , and even the man of the world , may be born , as well as the poet .
Page xii
Nothing is more evident than that he had a tafte of natural philofophy , mechanicks , ancient and modern hiftory , poctical learning , and mythology : we find him very knowing in the customs , rites , and manners , of antiquity .
Nothing is more evident than that he had a tafte of natural philofophy , mechanicks , ancient and modern hiftory , poctical learning , and mythology : we find him very knowing in the customs , rites , and manners , of antiquity .
Page xiii
Whatever object of nature , or branch of fcience , he either fpeaks of or defcribes ; it is always with competent if not extenfive knowledge : his descriptions are still exact ; all his metaphors appropriated , and remarkably drawn from ...
Whatever object of nature , or branch of fcience , he either fpeaks of or defcribes ; it is always with competent if not extenfive knowledge : his descriptions are still exact ; all his metaphors appropriated , and remarkably drawn from ...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 1 The Works of Shakespeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1770 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 3 Oct 2012 |
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