The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 - English drama |
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Page xxv
... ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received . by difcovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
... ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received . by difcovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
Page xxx
... ftand , not that I think the prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo eafily received but for better reafons than I have yet been ...
... ftand , not that I think the prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been fo eafily received but for better reafons than I have yet been ...
Page xlii
... ftand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little , becomes at laft capricious and cafual . Shakespeare , whether life or nature be his fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he ...
... ftand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little , becomes at laft capricious and cafual . Shakespeare , whether life or nature be his fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he ...
Page lxii
... ftand unauthorifed , and contented themfelves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
... ftand unauthorifed , and contented themfelves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of these alterations are only the ...
Page lxxii
... ftand the judgment of the publick ; and wish that I could confidently produce my commentary as equal to the encouragement which I have had the honour of receiving . Every work of this kind is by its nature deficient , and I fhould feel ...
... ftand the judgment of the publick ; and wish that I could confidently produce my commentary as equal to the encouragement which I have had the honour of receiving . Every work of this kind is by its nature deficient , and I fhould feel ...
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