The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... still valued for its rarity . Nations , like individuals , have their infancy . A people newly awakened to literary curiofity , being yet unacquainted with the true state of things , knows not how to judge of that which is proposed as ...
... still valued for its rarity . Nations , like individuals , have their infancy . A people newly awakened to literary curiofity , being yet unacquainted with the true state of things , knows not how to judge of that which is proposed as ...
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... still find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expresses his wonder , that our author's ...
... still find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expresses his wonder , that our author's ...
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... obfcure ; his works were transcribed for the players by those who may be supposed to have feldom understood them ; they were tranfmitted by copiers equally equally unskilful , who still multiplied errors ; they were PREFACE .
... obfcure ; his works were transcribed for the players by those who may be supposed to have feldom understood them ; they were tranfmitted by copiers equally equally unskilful , who still multiplied errors ; they were PREFACE .
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... still multiplied errors ; they were perhaps sometimes mutilated by the actors , for the fake of shortening the speeches ; and were at last printed without correction of the press . In this state they remained , not as Dr. Warburton ...
... still multiplied errors ; they were perhaps sometimes mutilated by the actors , for the fake of shortening the speeches ; and were at last printed without correction of the press . In this state they remained , not as Dr. Warburton ...
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... , of all modern and perhaps ancient poets , " had the largest and most comprehenfive foul . All " the images of nature were still present to him , and VOL . I. " he [ E ] " he drew them not laboriously , but luckily : PREFACE .
... , of all modern and perhaps ancient poets , " had the largest and most comprehenfive foul . All " the images of nature were still present to him , and VOL . I. " he [ E ] " he drew them not laboriously , but luckily : PREFACE .
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