The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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Page 64
... censure of criticks , who form their judgments upon nar- rower principles . Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings * Quærit quod nusquam est gentium , reperit tamen , Facit illud ...
... censure of criticks , who form their judgments upon nar- rower principles . Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings * Quærit quod nusquam est gentium , reperit tamen , Facit illud ...
Page 101
... censure of faults , or praise of excel- lence ; in which I know not how much I have concurred with the current opinion ; but I have not , by any affectation of singularity , deviated from it . Nothing is minutely and particularly ...
... censure of faults , or praise of excel- lence ; in which I know not how much I have concurred with the current opinion ; but I have not , by any affectation of singularity , deviated from it . Nothing is minutely and particularly ...
Page 273
... censure ; for he allows them to be of a date previous to his own edition . He , therefore , on this sub- ject , is the assailant , and not the conductors of the present republication . But though , in the course of succeeding strictures ...
... censure ; for he allows them to be of a date previous to his own edition . He , therefore , on this sub- ject , is the assailant , and not the conductors of the present republication . But though , in the course of succeeding strictures ...
Contents
ROMEO AND JULIET | 12 |
AS YOU LIKE | 83 |
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 121 |
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