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 xxviii
... death may take it from her . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousnefs of fiction ; if we thought murders and treafons real , they would please no more . Imitations Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are ...
... death may take it from her . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousnefs of fiction ; if we thought murders and treafons real , they would please no more . Imitations Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are ...
Page xxxiii
... Death of Arthur was the favourite volume . The mind , which has feafted on the luxurious won- ders of fiction , has no taste of the infipidity of truth . A play which imitated only the common occurrences of the world , would , upon the ...
... Death of Arthur was the favourite volume . The mind , which has feafted on the luxurious won- ders of fiction , has no taste of the infipidity of truth . A play which imitated only the common occurrences of the world , would , upon the ...
Page xlv
... death , and the few which appeared in his life are apparently thrust into the world without the care of the authour , and there- fore probably without his knowledge , Of Of all the publishers , clandeftine or profeffed , their PREFACE .
... death , and the few which appeared in his life are apparently thrust into the world without the care of the authour , and there- fore probably without his knowledge , Of Of all the publishers , clandeftine or profeffed , their PREFACE .
Page lxxv
... a thing , we confeffe , worthy to have been wifhed , that the Author himfelfe had liv'd to have set forth , and overfeene his owne writings ; But fince it hath been ordain'd otherwife , and he by death depart- 3 hath THE PREFACE ...
... a thing , we confeffe , worthy to have been wifhed , that the Author himfelfe had liv'd to have set forth , and overfeene his owne writings ; But fince it hath been ordain'd otherwife , and he by death depart- 3 hath THE PREFACE ...
Page lxxvi
... death depart- ed from that right , we pray you do not envy his Friends , the office of their care , and paine , to have colected and publish'd them ; and so to have publisht them , as where ( before ) you were abus'd with divers ftolne ...
... death depart- ed from that right , we pray you do not envy his Friends , the office of their care , and paine , to have colected and publish'd them ; and so to have publisht them , as where ( before ) you were abus'd with divers ftolne ...
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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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