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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... honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe , who ... honour past than prefent excellence ; and the mind contemplates ge- nius through the fhades of age , as the eye ...
... honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe , who ... honour past than prefent excellence ; and the mind contemplates ge- nius through the fhades of age , as the eye ...
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... honours at every tranfmiffion . But because human judgment , though it be gra- dually gaining upon certainty , never becomes infal lible ; and approbation , though long continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ...
... honours at every tranfmiffion . But because human judgment , though it be gra- dually gaining upon certainty , never becomes infal lible ; and approbation , though long continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ...
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... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from thinking , that ...
... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from thinking , that ...
Page xlv
... honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jests in many dialogues , or to entangle differ- ent plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may be at least forgiven him , by those who recollect , that of ...
... honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jests in many dialogues , or to entangle differ- ent plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may be at least forgiven him , by those who recollect , that of ...
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... honour , be it more or lefs , fhould be transferred to the first claimant , for his right , and his alone , ftands above difpute ; the fecond can prove his pre- tenfions only to himself , nor can himself always diftinguish invention ...
... honour , be it more or lefs , fhould be transferred to the first claimant , for his right , and his alone , ftands above difpute ; the fecond can prove his pre- tenfions only to himself , nor can himself always diftinguish invention ...
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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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