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 xxvi
... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this , may imagine more . He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delufion ...
... lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra . Surely he that imagines this , may imagine more . He that can take the ftage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delufion ...
Page xxxiv
... lives into plays , when they had been tranflated by North . His plots , whether hiftorical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by fentiment or ...
... lives into plays , when they had been tranflated by North . His plots , whether hiftorical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by fentiment or ...
Page lxxxi
... live by the Majority , they know no rule but that of pleafing the prefent humour , and complying with the wit in fashion a confideration which brings all their judgment to a fhort point . Players are just fuch judges of what is right ...
... live by the Majority , they know no rule but that of pleafing the prefent humour , and complying with the wit in fashion a confideration which brings all their judgment to a fhort point . Players are just fuch judges of what is right ...
Page xcvi
... Lives naturally become the Subject of our critical Enquiries : That however trifling fuch a Curiofity at the first View may appear , yet , as for what relates to Men of Letters , the Knowledge of an Author may , perhaps , fometimes ...
... Lives naturally become the Subject of our critical Enquiries : That however trifling fuch a Curiofity at the first View may appear , yet , as for what relates to Men of Letters , the Knowledge of an Author may , perhaps , fometimes ...
Page cxlv
... lives , and even their fhape , make , and features have been the fubject of critical enquiries . How trifling foever this Curiofity may feem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly fatisfied with an account of any ...
... lives , and even their fhape , make , and features have been the fubject of critical enquiries . How trifling foever this Curiofity may feem to be , it is certainly very natural ; and we are hardly fatisfied with an account of any ...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 8 William Shakespeare,Samuel Johnson,J and R Tonson No preview available - 2016 |
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