The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ...
... eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ...
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... eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labours were exhibited had more skill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted fome visible and ...
... eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labours were exhibited had more skill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted fome visible and ...
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... eye with awful pomp , and gratifying the mind with endless diverfity . Other poets difplay cabinets of precious rarities , minutely finished , wrought into fhape , and polished unto brightness . Shakespeare opens a mine which contains ...
... eye with awful pomp , and gratifying the mind with endless diverfity . Other poets difplay cabinets of precious rarities , minutely finished , wrought into fhape , and polished unto brightness . Shakespeare opens a mine which contains ...
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... eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame invites to the fame studies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to stand in [ C 3 ] the the place of ...
... eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame invites to the fame studies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to stand in [ C 3 ] the the place of ...
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... eyes ; he gives the image which he receives , not weakened or diftorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignorant feel his representations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are complete . Perhaps it would not be easy ...
... eyes ; he gives the image which he receives , not weakened or diftorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignorant feel his representations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are complete . Perhaps it would not be easy ...
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