The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 |
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Page vi
... The Pythagorean fcale of numbers was at once difcovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence , intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after na- vi . PREFACE .
... The Pythagorean fcale of numbers was at once difcovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence , intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after na- vi . PREFACE .
Page viii
... common fatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleasures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted , and the mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the ...
... common fatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleasures of fudden wonder are foon exhaufted , and the mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the ...
Page ix
In Eight Volumes William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. geny of common humanity , fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and speak by the influence of thofe ge- neral paffions and ...
In Eight Volumes William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. geny of common humanity , fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and speak by the influence of thofe ge- neral paffions and ...
Page x
... common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady and a rival into ...
... common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady and a rival into ...
Page xv
... it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs . Hiftory Hiftory was a series of actions , with no other PREFACE . ' xv.
... it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs . Hiftory Hiftory was a series of actions , with no other PREFACE . ' xv.
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 8 William Shakespeare,Samuel Johnson,J and R Tonson No preview available - 2016 |
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