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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... prefent age refufes , and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy , will be at laft bestowed by time . Antiquity , like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that ...
... prefent age refufes , and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy , will be at laft bestowed by time . Antiquity , like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that ...
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... prefent poffeffor to another claimant . The choice is right , when there is reafon for choice . Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hy- perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity ...
... prefent poffeffor to another claimant . The choice is right , when there is reafon for choice . Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hy- perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity ...
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... gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deferves to be ftudied as one of the original xviii PREFACE .
... gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deferves to be ftudied as one of the original xviii PREFACE .
Page xxx
... prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo eafily received but for better reafons than I have yet been able to find . The refult of ...
... prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo eafily received but for better reafons than I have yet been able to find . The refult of ...
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... prefent man- ners ; the drefs is a little varied , but the body is the fame . Our authour had both matter and form to provide ; for except the characters of Chaucer , to whom I think he is not much indebted , there were no writers in ...
... prefent man- ners ; the drefs is a little varied , but the body is the fame . Our authour had both matter and form to provide ; for except the characters of Chaucer , to whom I think he is not much indebted , there were no writers in ...
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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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