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Page ii
... cause I would not omit any occafion of doing it . If ever any Author deferved the name of an Original , it was Shakespear . Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of Nature , it proceeded thro ' Ægyptian ...
... cause I would not omit any occafion of doing it . If ever any Author deferved the name of an Original , it was Shakespear . Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of Nature , it proceeded thro ' Ægyptian ...
Page iv
... has perhaps written worse , than any other . But I think I can in fome measure account for these defects , from fe- ! ر f veral causes and accidents ; without which veral iv The PREFACE . and Spleen, are no less at his command! ...
... has perhaps written worse , than any other . But I think I can in fome measure account for these defects , from fe- ! ر f veral causes and accidents ; without which veral iv The PREFACE . and Spleen, are no less at his command! ...
Page v
William Shakespeare ! ر f veral causes and accidents ; without which it is hard to imagine that so large and fo ... cause Admiration , as the most strange , unexpected , and confequently moft unnatural , Events and Incidents ; the ...
William Shakespeare ! ر f veral causes and accidents ; without which it is hard to imagine that so large and fo ... cause Admiration , as the most strange , unexpected , and confequently moft unnatural , Events and Incidents ; the ...
Page viii
... Cause ( and no less strong than the former ) may be deduced from our Au- thor's being a Player , and forming himself firft upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member . They have ever had a Standard to themselves ...
... Cause ( and no less strong than the former ) may be deduced from our Au- thor's being a Player , and forming himself firft upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member . They have ever had a Standard to themselves ...
Page xii
... cause Shakespear wrote with ease and rapi- dity , they cryed , he never once made a blor . Nay the spirit of opposition ran so high , that whatever those of the one fide objected to the other , was taken at the re- bound , and turned ...
... cause Shakespear wrote with ease and rapi- dity , they cryed , he never once made a blor . Nay the spirit of opposition ran so high , that whatever those of the one fide objected to the other , was taken at the re- bound , and turned ...
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