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Page ix
... reasons , they must be charg'd upon the Poet himself , and there is no help for it . But I think the two Disadvantages which I have mentioned ( to be obliged to please the lowest of people , and to keep the worst of company ) if the ...
... reasons , they must be charg'd upon the Poet himself , and there is no help for it . But I think the two Disadvantages which I have mentioned ( to be obliged to please the lowest of people , and to keep the worst of company ) if the ...
Page xiii
... reason to be afraid of Admiration : They are the Scylla and Charybdis of Authors ; those who escape one , often fall by the other . Peffimum genus inimicorum Laudantes , says Tacitus : and Virgil defires to wear a charm againft those ...
... reason to be afraid of Admiration : They are the Scylla and Charybdis of Authors ; those who escape one , often fall by the other . Peffimum genus inimicorum Laudantes , says Tacitus : and Virgil defires to wear a charm againft those ...
Page xviii
... reason , than their wil- lingness to shorten fome scenes : These men ( as it was faid of Procrustes ) either lopping , or stretching an Author , to make him just fit for their Stage . This edition is said to be printed from the Original ...
... reason , than their wil- lingness to shorten fome scenes : These men ( as it was faid of Procrustes ) either lopping , or stretching an Author , to make him just fit for their Stage . This edition is said to be printed from the Original ...
Page xx
... reason , than that a governing Player , to have the mouthing of some favourite speech himself , would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an Underling . fork ) Profe from verse they did not know , and they accordingly printed one for ...
... reason , than that a governing Player , to have the mouthing of some favourite speech himself , would snatch it from the unworthy lips of an Underling . fork ) Profe from verse they did not know , and they accordingly printed one for ...
Page xxx
... reason , how fond do we fee some people of discovering any little personal story of the great men of Antiquity , their families , the common ac- cidents of their lives , and even their shape , make and features , have been the subject ...
... reason , how fond do we fee some people of discovering any little personal story of the great men of Antiquity , their families , the common ac- cidents of their lives , and even their shape , make and features , have been the subject ...
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