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 v
... through artificial opacity . The great con- tention of criticism is to find the faults of the mo- - derns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an au- A 3 thour thour is yet living we estimate his powers by his [ v ] PREFACE. ...
... through artificial opacity . The great con- tention of criticism is to find the faults of the mo- - derns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an au- A 3 thour thour is yet living we estimate his powers by his [ v ] PREFACE. ...
Page xix
... faults , and faults fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any other merit . I fhall fhew them in the proportion in . which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently ...
... faults , and faults fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any other merit . I fhall fhew them in the proportion in . which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently ...
Page xx
... fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and ... faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not ...
... fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and ... faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not ...
Page xlvi
... faults of all are indeed numerous and grofs , and have not only corrupted many paffages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obfcured by obfolete phrafeology , or by the writer's unfkilful ...
... faults of all are indeed numerous and grofs , and have not only corrupted many paffages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obfcured by obfolete phrafeology , or by the writer's unfkilful ...
Page xlvii
... faults were com- mitted , with displays of the abfurdities which they involved , with oftentatious expofitions of the new reading , and felf congratulations on the happiness of discovering it . Of Rowe , as of all the editors , I have ...
... faults were com- mitted , with displays of the abfurdities which they involved , with oftentatious expofitions of the new reading , and felf congratulations on the happiness of discovering it . Of Rowe , as of all the editors , I have ...
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