The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... criticks have fhifted their ground ; and the reprefentation originally pro- nounced to have been fo unlike our author , is fince declared to be an immediate copy from the print by Martin Droefhout . But by what means are fuch direct ...
... criticks have fhifted their ground ; and the reprefentation originally pro- nounced to have been fo unlike our author , is fince declared to be an immediate copy from the print by Martin Droefhout . But by what means are fuch direct ...
Page 41
... criticks is ex- tinct ) cannot fail to be remedied by a judicious and frugal felection from the labours of us all . Nor is fuch an event to be deprecated even by ourselves ; fince we may be certain that fome ivy of each indi- vidual's ...
... criticks is ex- tinct ) cannot fail to be remedied by a judicious and frugal felection from the labours of us all . Nor is fuch an event to be deprecated even by ourselves ; fince we may be certain that fome ivy of each indi- vidual's ...
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... criticks of that time . " The matter of fact , if my memory fail me not , was this . Mr. Hales of Eton affirmed , that he would show all the poets of antiquity out - done by Shakspeare , in all the topicks and common- places made ufe of ...
... criticks of that time . " The matter of fact , if my memory fail me not , was this . Mr. Hales of Eton affirmed , that he would show all the poets of antiquity out - done by Shakspeare , in all the topicks and common- places made ufe of ...
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... criticks in the attempt are loft , " When most they rail , know then , they envy moft . " It appears from a circumftance mentioned by Dryden , that these verses were written after the year 1683 : probably after Rymer's book had appeared ...
... criticks in the attempt are loft , " When most they rail , know then , they envy moft . " It appears from a circumftance mentioned by Dryden , that these verses were written after the year 1683 : probably after Rymer's book had appeared ...
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... criticks who renounce tragi - comedy as barbarous , I fear , fpeak more from notions which they have formed in their closets , than any well - built theory deduced from experience of what pleases or difpleafes , which ought to be the ...
... criticks who renounce tragi - comedy as barbarous , I fear , fpeak more from notions which they have formed in their closets , than any well - built theory deduced from experience of what pleases or difpleafes , which ought to be the ...
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