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Page viii
... these , laughter and spleen , are no less at his command ! that he is not more a master of the great , than of the ridiculous in human nature ; of our nobleft tendernesses , than of our vainest foibles ; of our strongest emotions , than ...
... these , laughter and spleen , are no less at his command ! that he is not more a master of the great , than of the ridiculous in human nature ; of our nobleft tendernesses , than of our vainest foibles ; of our strongest emotions , than ...
Page ix
... these great excellencies , he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better , fo he has , perhaps , written worse , than any other . But I think , I can in some measure account for these defects , from ...
... these great excellencies , he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better , fo he has , perhaps , written worse , than any other . But I think , I can in some measure account for these defects , from ...
Page x
... these , our author's wit buoys up , and is born above his subject : his genius in those low parts is like some prince of a romance in the disguife of a shepherd or peafant ; a certain greatness and spirit now and then break out , which ...
... these , our author's wit buoys up , and is born above his subject : his genius in those low parts is like some prince of a romance in the disguife of a shepherd or peafant ; a certain greatness and spirit now and then break out , which ...
Page xi
... these men it was thought a praise to Shakespear , that he scarce ever blotted a line . This they industriously propagated , as appears from what we are told by Ben . Jonson in his discoveries , and from the preface of Heminges and ...
... these men it was thought a praise to Shakespear , that he scarce ever blotted a line . This they industriously propagated , as appears from what we are told by Ben . Jonson in his discoveries , and from the preface of Heminges and ...
Page xii
... these are not to be afcrib'd to the forefaid accidental reasons , they must be charg'd upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But , I think , the two disadvantages which I have mention'd ( to be obliged to please the ...
... these are not to be afcrib'd to the forefaid accidental reasons , they must be charg'd upon the poet himself , and there is no help for it . But , I think , the two disadvantages which I have mention'd ( to be obliged to please the ...
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