The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an ...
... persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an ...
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... nothing characteristical ; but , perhaps , though fome may be equally adapted to every person , it will be difficult to find any that can be be properly transferred from the present poffeffor to another claimant PREFACE .
... nothing characteristical ; but , perhaps , though fome may be equally adapted to every person , it will be difficult to find any that can be be properly transferred from the present poffeffor to another claimant PREFACE .
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... persons , however serious or distressful through its in- termediate incidents , in their opinion conftituted a comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays were written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe ...
... persons , however serious or distressful through its in- termediate incidents , in their opinion conftituted a comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays were written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe ...
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... persons indifferently through right and wrong , and at the close dismisses them without further care , and leaves their examples to operate by chance . This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's ...
... persons indifferently through right and wrong , and at the close dismisses them without further care , and leaves their examples to operate by chance . This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's ...
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... the most authentic copies , whether collation was absolutely necessary for the recovery of fenfe , or not . The person who undertook this task may have failed by inadvertency , as well as those who preceded him , inad . T ...
... the most authentic copies , whether collation was absolutely necessary for the recovery of fenfe , or not . The person who undertook this task may have failed by inadvertency , as well as those who preceded him , inad . T ...
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