“The” Plays Of William Shakespeare, Volume 1T. Bensley, 1778 |
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William Shakespeare. Mane - 42735 BIBTION SEA LEVI PREFACE . T HAT praifes are without reafon lavished on.
William Shakespeare. Mane - 42735 BIBTION SEA LEVI PREFACE . T HAT praifes are without reafon lavished on.
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... reafon , but from prejudice . Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preserved , without confidering that time has fometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent excel ...
... reafon , but from prejudice . Some feem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preserved , without confidering that time has fometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent excel ...
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... reafon for choice . Other dramatists can only gain attention by hy- perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a ...
... reafon for choice . Other dramatists can only gain attention by hy- perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a ...
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... reafon , propriety , and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world , and was content to lofe it . It will be thought ftrange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet ...
... reafon , propriety , and truth . A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world , and was content to lofe it . It will be thought ftrange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet ...
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... reafon to believe at leaft as old as his earliest plays . This however is cer- It appears from the induction of Ben Jonfon's Bartholomew Fair to have been acted before the year 1590 . STEEVENS . tain , that he is the first who taught ...
... reafon to believe at leaft as old as his earliest plays . This however is cer- It appears from the induction of Ben Jonfon's Bartholomew Fair to have been acted before the year 1590 . STEEVENS . tain , that he is the first who taught ...
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