The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... nature . This was neceffarily a previous inquiry ; and I hope I may affume with fome confidence , what one of the first criticks of the age was pleased to declare on reading the former edition , that " The queftion is now for ever ...
... nature . This was neceffarily a previous inquiry ; and I hope I may affume with fome confidence , what one of the first criticks of the age was pleased to declare on reading the former edition , that " The queftion is now for ever ...
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... natural foil is miftaken for a hot - bed , and the natives of the banks of Avon are fcientifically choked with the culture of ex- oticks . ' Mr. Seward , in his Preface to Beaumont and Fletcher , 10 Vols . 8vo . 1750 . 1 Thus much for ...
... natural foil is miftaken for a hot - bed , and the natives of the banks of Avon are fcientifically choked with the culture of ex- oticks . ' Mr. Seward , in his Preface to Beaumont and Fletcher , 10 Vols . 8vo . 1750 . 1 Thus much for ...
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... Nature only helpt him , for looke thorow " This whole book , thou fhalt find he doth not borow , " One phrase from Greekes , not Latines imitate , " Nor once from vulgar languages translate . ” s Suckling oppofed his easier ftrain to ...
... Nature only helpt him , for looke thorow " This whole book , thou fhalt find he doth not borow , " One phrase from Greekes , not Latines imitate , " Nor once from vulgar languages translate . ” s Suckling oppofed his easier ftrain to ...
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... nature was all the art used upon him , as he himself , if alive , would confefs . " may we not fay , he did confefs it , when he apolo- gized for his untutored lines to his noble patron the Earl of Southampton ? -this lift of witneffes ...
... nature was all the art used upon him , as he himself , if alive , would confefs . " may we not fay , he did confefs it , when he apolo- gized for his untutored lines to his noble patron the Earl of Southampton ? -this lift of witneffes ...
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... nature to claffick ground , where alone , he knew , his au- thor could poffibly cope with him . These criticks , and ... natural defcription and every moral fentiment . Indeed by the kind affiftance of the various Excerpta , Sententiæ ...
... nature to claffick ground , where alone , he knew , his au- thor could poffibly cope with him . These criticks , and ... natural defcription and every moral fentiment . Indeed by the kind affiftance of the various Excerpta , Sententiæ ...
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