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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... nature no man can properly call a river deep or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains and many rivers ; fo in the produc- tions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works ...
... nature no man can properly call a river deep or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains and many rivers ; fo in the produc- tions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works ...
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... nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The ir- regular combinations of fanciful invention may de- light a - while , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of ...
... nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The ir- regular combinations of fanciful invention may de- light a - while , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of ...
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... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed . This therefore is the praife of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in ...
... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed . This therefore is the praife of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in ...
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... natural power upon kings . These are the petty cavils of petty + minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country ... nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and ...
... natural power upon kings . These are the petty cavils of petty + minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country ... nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and ...
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... nature . The end of writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- ftruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may con- vey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in its alterations of ...
... nature . The end of writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- ftruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may con- vey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in its alterations of ...
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