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 xxxv
... thing that acquaints us with human fentiments or human actions ; we place it with the fairest and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by conjunction with learning , but Othello is the vigo- rous and vivacious offspring of ...
... thing that acquaints us with human fentiments or human actions ; we place it with the fairest and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by conjunction with learning , but Othello is the vigo- rous and vivacious offspring of ...
Page xliv
... thing to him , he owes fomething to us ; that , if much of his praise is paid by perception and judge- ment , much is likewife given by custom and venera- tion . We fix our eyes upon his graces , and turn them from his deformities , and ...
... thing to him , he owes fomething to us ; that , if much of his praise is paid by perception and judge- ment , much is likewife given by custom and venera- tion . We fix our eyes upon his graces , and turn them from his deformities , and ...
Page xlix
... thing for others to do , that he past the latter part of his life in a ftate of hoftility with verbal criticifm . He I have retained all his notes , that no fragment of fo great a writer may be loft ; his preface , valuable alike for ...
... thing for others to do , that he past the latter part of his life in a ftate of hoftility with verbal criticifm . He I have retained all his notes , that no fragment of fo great a writer may be loft ; his preface , valuable alike for ...
Page lix
... thing to his illuftration , communicate their difcoveries , and time produces what had eluded diligence . To time I have been obliged to refign many paf- fages , which , though I did not understand them , will perhaps hereafter be ...
... thing to his illuftration , communicate their difcoveries , and time produces what had eluded diligence . To time I have been obliged to refign many paf- fages , which , though I did not understand them , will perhaps hereafter be ...
Page lxxxiv
... thing . Becaufe Johnfon did not write extem- pore , he was reproached with being a year about every piece ; and because Shakespear wrote with eafe and ra- pidity , they cry'd , he never once made a blot . Nay the fpirit of oppofition ...
... thing . Becaufe Johnfon did not write extem- pore , he was reproached with being a year about every piece ; and because Shakespear wrote with eafe and ra- pidity , they cry'd , he never once made a blot . Nay the fpirit of oppofition ...
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