The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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Page 121
... seems to produce without labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick , but in co- medy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of think- ing congenial to his ...
... seems to produce without labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick , but in co- medy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of think- ing congenial to his ...
Page 164
... seems to have been their work , who knew that plainness was necessary for the audience of an illiterate age , than that it was done by the consent of the author : for he would hardly have unnerved a line in his written copy , which they ...
... seems to have been their work , who knew that plainness was necessary for the audience of an illiterate age , than that it was done by the consent of the author : for he would hardly have unnerved a line in his written copy , which they ...
Page 291
... seems , as I thought it my duty , to dis- cover some anachronisms in our author ; which might have slept in obscurity but for this Restorer , as Mr. Pope is pleased affec- tionately to style me : as for instance , where Aristotle is men ...
... seems , as I thought it my duty , to dis- cover some anachronisms in our author ; which might have slept in obscurity but for this Restorer , as Mr. Pope is pleased affec- tionately to style me : as for instance , where Aristotle is men ...
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