Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... But the dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is pursued with so much ease and fimplicity , that it feems [ A3 ] seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but PREFACE .
... But the dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is pursued with so much ease and fimplicity , that it feems [ A3 ] seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but PREFACE .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent selection out of com- mon conversation ... seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction, but ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent selection out of com- mon conversation ... seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction, but ...
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... . In tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at last with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes , he seems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy PREFACE .
... . In tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at last with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes , he seems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy PREFACE .
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... seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting , but his comedy often furpasses expectation or defire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts ...
... seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting , but his comedy often furpasses expectation or defire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts ...
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... seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a system of focial duty may be selected , for he that thinks reasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him ; he makes no just ...
... seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a system of focial duty may be selected , for he that thinks reasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him ; he makes no just ...
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Página 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Página 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...