The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1A. Leathley, 1766 |
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Page xii
... muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop cafually from him ; he makes no juft diftribution of good or evil , nor is always careful to fhew in the virtuous a difapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his perfons in ...
... muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop cafually from him ; he makes no juft diftribution of good or evil , nor is always careful to fhew in the virtuous a difapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his perfons in ...
Page xiv
... muft , however , have been always fome modes of gayety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chuse the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worfe , as his labour is more . The effufions of paffion which ...
... muft , however , have been always fome modes of gayety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chuse the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worfe , as his labour is more . The effufions of paffion which ...
Page xvi
... muft oppofe , adventure to try how I can defend him . His hiftories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are not fubject to any of their laws ; nothing more is neceffary to all the praise which they expect , than that the changes of ...
... muft oppofe , adventure to try how I can defend him . His hiftories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are not fubject to any of their laws ; nothing more is neceffary to all the praise which they expect , than that the changes of ...
Page xxiv
... muft be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our authour's ex- travagancies are endured by a nation , which has ...
... muft be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our authour's ex- travagancies are endured by a nation , which has ...
Page xxvii
... muft not be content to study him in the closet , he must look for his meaning fometimes among the sports of the field , and fometimes among the manufactures of the shop . There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader ...
... muft not be content to study him in the closet , he must look for his meaning fometimes among the sports of the field , and fometimes among the manufactures of the shop . There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader ...
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