The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... sometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye surveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great ...
... sometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye surveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great ...
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... sometimes defeated by the frolick of an- other ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without ... sometimes pro- duce duce seriousness and forrow , and sometimes levity and laughter PREFACE .
... sometimes defeated by the frolick of an- other ; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without ... sometimes pro- duce duce seriousness and forrow , and sometimes levity and laughter PREFACE .
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... sometimes levity and laughter . That this is a practice contrary to the rules of cri- ticism will be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature . The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry ...
... sometimes levity and laughter . That this is a practice contrary to the rules of cri- ticism will be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature . The end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry ...
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... sometimes forced , and their actions improbable ; as the earth upon the whole is fpherical , though its furface is varied with protu- berances and cavities . Shake Shakespeare with his excellencies has likewise faults , and faults PREFACE .
... sometimes forced , and their actions improbable ; as the earth upon the whole is fpherical , though its furface is varied with protu- berances and cavities . Shake Shakespeare with his excellencies has likewise faults , and faults PREFACE .
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... sometimes conduce to pleasure , they are always to be facrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and inftruction ; and that a play , written with nice observation of critical rules , is to be contem- plated as an elaborate curiosity ...
... sometimes conduce to pleasure , they are always to be facrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and inftruction ; and that a play , written with nice observation of critical rules , is to be contem- plated as an elaborate curiosity ...
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