The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the ...
... whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the ...
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... whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady , and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations , perplex them with op- positions of interest ...
... whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady , and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations , perplex them with op- positions of interest ...
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... whose excellence of any kind has been loudly celebrated , are ready to conclude , that their powers are univerfal . Pope's edition fell below his own ex- pectations , and he was so much offended , when he was found to have left any ...
... whose excellence of any kind has been loudly celebrated , are ready to conclude , that their powers are univerfal . Pope's edition fell below his own ex- pectations , and he was so much offended , when he was found to have left any ...
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... whose diligent perusal of the old English writers has enabled him to make fome useful observations . What he undertook he has well enough performed , but as he neither attempts judicial nor emendatory criticifm , he employs rather his ...
... whose diligent perusal of the old English writers has enabled him to make fome useful observations . What he undertook he has well enough performed , but as he neither attempts judicial nor emendatory criticifm , he employs rather his ...
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... whose construction contributes so much to perfpicuity , that Homer has fewer passages unintelligible than Chaucer . The words have not only a known regi- men , but invariable quantities , which direct and con- fine the choice . There ...
... whose construction contributes so much to perfpicuity , that Homer has fewer passages unintelligible than Chaucer . The words have not only a known regi- men , but invariable quantities , which direct and con- fine the choice . There ...
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