Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the ...
... whose works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive 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 some 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 some 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 ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
almoſt Anne Ariel becauſe beſt Caius Caliban cauſe criticks daughter defire deſign Duke edition editors elſe Engliſh Enter Exeunt Exit expreſſion faid falſe Falſtaff fame fatire fervant firſt fome Ford fubject fuch fure give hath Hoft houſe humour JOHNSON juſt laſt Laun leſs Lond lord loſe maſter maſter Brook Mira miſtreſs month's mind moſt muſt myſelf neceſſary obſerved occafion paſſages play pleaſe pleaſure poet praiſe pray preſent Profpero Protheus publiſhed purpoſe quartos Quic reaſon reſt ſame ſay ſcene ſeems ſenſe ſervice ſeveral Shal ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhould Silvia ſince Sir John Slen ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpeech Speed ſpirit ſtage ſtand ſtate STEEVENS ſtill ſtory ſtrange ſuch ſuppoſe thee THEOBALD theſe thoſe thou thought Thurio tranſlated Trin uſe Valentine WARBURTON whoſe wife William Shakespeare word
Passagens conhecidas
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...