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Page vi
... thing that can be faid of it . There can be no doubt but à great deal more of that low stuff which difgraces the works of this great author , was foifted in by the players after his death , to pleafe the vulgar audiences by which they ...
... thing that can be faid of it . There can be no doubt but à great deal more of that low stuff which difgraces the works of this great author , was foifted in by the players after his death , to pleafe the vulgar audiences by which they ...
Page xiv
... thing . Because Fonfon did not write extempore , he was reproached with being a year about every piece ; and because Shakespear wrote with ease and rapidity , they cry'd , he never once made a blot . Nay the spirit of oppofition ran fo ...
... thing . Because Fonfon did not write extempore , he was reproached with being a year about every piece ; and because Shakespear wrote with ease and rapidity , they cry'd , he never once made a blot . Nay the spirit of oppofition ran fo ...
Page xviii
... thing which could no otherwise happen , but by their being taken from feparate and piecemeal - written parts . MANY verfes are omitted entirely , and others tranfpofed ; from whence invincible obfcurities have arifen , paft the guess of ...
... thing which could no otherwise happen , but by their being taken from feparate and piecemeal - written parts . MANY verfes are omitted entirely , and others tranfpofed ; from whence invincible obfcurities have arifen , paft the guess of ...
Page xxiii
... thing that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his tafte , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not fuperiour to fome of the beft of theirs ) would certainly have led him to read and study ...
... thing that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his tafte , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not fuperiour to fome of the beft of theirs ) would certainly have led him to read and study ...
Page xxvii
... thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topick finely treated by any of them , he would undertake to show fomething upon the fame fubject at least as well written by Shakespear . THE latter part of his life was spent , as ...
... thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topick finely treated by any of them , he would undertake to show fomething upon the fame fubject at least as well written by Shakespear . THE latter part of his life was spent , as ...
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