The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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However , as it was my business to collect for readers of all tastes , and all complexions , let me desire none to disapprove what hits not their own humour , but to turn over the page , and they will surely find something acceptable ...
However , as it was my business to collect for readers of all tastes , and all complexions , let me desire none to disapprove what hits not their own humour , but to turn over the page , and they will surely find something acceptable ...
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of their peculiarity , which to some , possibly , will appear neither sublime nor beautiful , and yet deserve attention , as indicating the vast stretch , and sometimes particular turn of the poet's imagination .
of their peculiarity , which to some , possibly , will appear neither sublime nor beautiful , and yet deserve attention , as indicating the vast stretch , and sometimes particular turn of the poet's imagination .
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Is it improbable that the author of the Venus and Adonis , and the Rape of Lucrece , should , on turning his attention to the stage , produce as heavy and monotonous a performance as Titus Andronicus ? I have been rather more diffuse ...
Is it improbable that the author of the Venus and Adonis , and the Rape of Lucrece , should , on turning his attention to the stage , produce as heavy and monotonous a performance as Titus Andronicus ? I have been rather more diffuse ...
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Shakspeare , like the latter , lesser in bulk , but lighter in sailing , could turn with all tides , tack about , and take advantage of all winds , by the quickness of his wit and invention . " Of these encounters of the keenest ...
Shakspeare , like the latter , lesser in bulk , but lighter in sailing , could turn with all tides , tack about , and take advantage of all winds , by the quickness of his wit and invention . " Of these encounters of the keenest ...
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A part of the wit , " says Dr. Drake , " turns upon the com parison between the blacksmith's face , and a species of maple , the bark of which is uncommonly rough , and the grain undulated and crisped into a variety of curls .
A part of the wit , " says Dr. Drake , " turns upon the com parison between the blacksmith's face , and a species of maple , the bark of which is uncommonly rough , and the grain undulated and crisped into a variety of curls .
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| Title | The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Compiled by | William Dodd |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 4 May 2010 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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