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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... fure confifts in variety . The players , who in their edition divided our au- thour's works into comedies , histories , and tragedies , feem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas .. An action ...
... fure confifts in variety . The players , who in their edition divided our au- thour's works into comedies , histories , and tragedies , feem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas .. An action ...
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... fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire . It has fome malignant power over his mind , and its fafcinations are irrefiftible . Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his dif- quifition , whether he be ...
... fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire . It has fome malignant power over his mind , and its fafcinations are irrefiftible . Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his dif- quifition , whether he be ...
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... fure , they are always to be facrificed to the nobler ' beauties of variety and inftruction ; and that a play , written with nice obfervation of critical rules , is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiofity , as the product of ...
... fure , they are always to be facrificed to the nobler ' beauties of variety and inftruction ; and that a play , written with nice obfervation of critical rules , is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiofity , as the product of ...
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... fure that his authour intended to be grammatical . Shakespeare regarded more the feries of ideas , than of words ; and his lan- guage , not being defigned for the reader's defk , was all that he defired it to be , if it conveyed his ...
... fure that his authour intended to be grammatical . Shakespeare regarded more the feries of ideas , than of words ; and his lan- guage , not being defigned for the reader's defk , was all that he defired it to be , if it conveyed his ...
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... fure without bitterness of malice , and , I hope , without wantonnefs of infult . It is no pleasure to me , in revifing my volumes , to obferve how much paper is wafted in confutation , Whoever confiders the revolutions of learning ...
... fure without bitterness of malice , and , I hope , without wantonnefs of infult . It is no pleasure to me , in revifing my volumes , to obferve how much paper is wafted in confutation , Whoever confiders the revolutions of learning ...
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