The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1A. Leathley, 1766 |
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Page xvi
... learning which I muft oppofe , adventure to try how I can defend him . His hiftories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are not fubject to any of their laws ; nothing more is neceffary to all the praise which they expect , than ...
... learning which I muft oppofe , adventure to try how I can defend him . His hiftories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are not fubject to any of their laws ; nothing more is neceffary to all the praise which they expect , than ...
Page xxi
... learning may be produced against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts ...
... learning may be produced against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not that I think the prefent question one of those that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts ...
Page xxii
... learning , read , with great diligence , the Italian and Spanish poets . But literature was yet con- fined to profeffed scholars , or to men and women of high rank . The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write ...
... learning , read , with great diligence , the Italian and Spanish poets . But literature was yet con- fined to profeffed scholars , or to men and women of high rank . The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write ...
Page xxiii
... learning , the whole people is the vulgar . The ftudy of those who then af pired to plebeian learning was laid out upon adventures , giants , dragons , and enchantments . The Death of Ar- thur was the favourite volume . The mind , which ...
... learning , the whole people is the vulgar . The ftudy of those who then af pired to plebeian learning was laid out upon adventures , giants , dragons , and enchantments . The Death of Ar- thur was the favourite volume . The mind , which ...
Page xxv
... learning , that he had no regular educa- tion , nor much skill in the dead languages . Johnson , his friend , affirms , that he had fmall Latin , and no Greek ; who , befides that he had no imaginable temp- tation to falfehood , wrote ...
... learning , that he had no regular educa- tion , nor much skill in the dead languages . Johnson , his friend , affirms , that he had fmall Latin , and no Greek ; who , befides that he had no imaginable temp- tation to falfehood , wrote ...
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