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Page xii
... there is no help for it . But , I think , the two disadvantages which I have mention'd ( to be obliged to please the lowest of people , and to keep the worst of company ) if the confideration be extended as far as it reasonably may ...
... there is no help for it . But , I think , the two disadvantages which I have mention'd ( to be obliged to please the lowest of people , and to keep the worst of company ) if the confideration be extended as far as it reasonably may ...
Page xvi
... there is very little variation in all the subsequent editions of them . There are extant two prefaces , to the first quarto edition of Troilus and Cressida in 1609 , and to that of Othello ; by which it appears , that the first was ...
... there is very little variation in all the subsequent editions of them . There are extant two prefaces , to the first quarto edition of Troilus and Cressida in 1609 , and to that of Othello ; by which it appears , that the first was ...
Page xxix
... there was ever more in him to be praised " than to be pardoned . As for the passage which he mentions out of Shakespear , there is somewhat like it in Julius Cæfar , but without the absurdity ; nor did I ever meet with it in any edition ...
... there was ever more in him to be praised " than to be pardoned . As for the passage which he mentions out of Shakespear , there is somewhat like it in Julius Cæfar , but without the absurdity ; nor did I ever meet with it in any edition ...
Page xxx
... There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical humours ; and though they did not then strike at all ranks of people , as the fatire of the present age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a pleafing and a well ...
... There is certainly a great deal of entertainment in his comical humours ; and though they did not then strike at all ranks of people , as the fatire of the present age has taken the liberty to do , yet there is a pleafing and a well ...
Page xxxi
... there be any fault in the draught he has made of this lewd old fellow , it is , that though he has made him a thief , lying , cowardly , vain - glorious , and , in short , every way vicious , yet he has given him so much wit as to make ...
... there be any fault in the draught he has made of this lewd old fellow , it is , that though he has made him a thief , lying , cowardly , vain - glorious , and , in short , every way vicious , yet he has given him so much wit as to make ...
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