The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... passage of hours . In contem- plation we easily contract the time of real actions , and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only fee their imitation . It will be asked , how the drama moves , if it is not credited ...
... passage of hours . In contem- plation we easily contract the time of real actions , and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only fee their imitation . It will be asked , how the drama moves , if it is not credited ...
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... passages which may pass for imi- tations , but so few , that the exception only confirms the rule ; he obtained them from accidental quota- tions , or by oral communication , and as he used what he had , would have used more if he had ...
... passages which may pass for imi- tations , but so few , that the exception only confirms the rule ; he obtained them from accidental quota- tions , or by oral communication , and as he used what he had , would have used more if he had ...
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... passages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obscured by obsolete phraseology , or by the writer's unskilfulness and affectation . To alter is more easy than to explain , and temerity is a ...
... passages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obscured by obsolete phraseology , or by the writer's unskilfulness and affectation . To alter is more easy than to explain , and temerity is a ...
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... passages , by the filent labours of fome editors , with the filent acquiefcence of the reft , that he thought himself allowed to extend a little further the licence , which had already been carried so far without repre- henfion ; and of ...
... passages , by the filent labours of fome editors , with the filent acquiefcence of the reft , that he thought himself allowed to extend a little further the licence , which had already been carried so far without repre- henfion ; and of ...
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... passages learned and sagacious . Of his notes , I have commonly rejected those , against which the general voice of the publick has exclaimed , or which their own incongruity imme- diately condemns , and which , I suppose , the author ...
... passages learned and sagacious . Of his notes , I have commonly rejected those , against which the general voice of the publick has exclaimed , or which their own incongruity imme- diately condemns , and which , I suppose , the author ...
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