The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... speech may be affigned to the proper speaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , perhaps , though fome may be equally adapted to every person , it will be difficult to find any that can be be ...
... speech may be affigned to the proper speaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , perhaps , though fome may be equally adapted to every person , it will be difficult to find any that can be be ...
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... speech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction for- fake the vulgar , when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above groffness and below refine- ment , where propriety refides , and where ...
... speech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction for- fake the vulgar , when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above groffness and below refine- ment , where propriety refides , and where ...
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... speeches are commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of nature ; when he endeavoured , like other tragick writers , VOL . I. [ B ] writers , to catch opportunities of amplification , and instead PREFACE .
... speeches are commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of nature ; when he endeavoured , like other tragick writers , VOL . I. [ B ] writers , to catch opportunities of amplification , and instead PREFACE .
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... speeches , but he alwavs makes us anxious for the event , and has perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting restless and unquenchable curiofity , and compelling him that reads his work to ...
... speeches , but he alwavs makes us anxious for the event , and has perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting restless and unquenchable curiofity , and compelling him that reads his work to ...
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... speeches , perhaps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but he never executes his purpose better , than ...
... speeches , perhaps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but he never executes his purpose better , than ...
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