Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... FIRST , CONTAINING , PREFACES . The TEMPEST . The TWO GENTLEMEN of VERONA . The MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR . : LONDON : Printed for C. BATHURST , J. BEECROFT , W. STRAHAN , J. and F. RIVINGTON , J. HINTON , L. DAVIS , HAWES , CLARKE and ...
... FIRST , CONTAINING , PREFACES . The TEMPEST . The TWO GENTLEMEN of VERONA . The MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR . : LONDON : Printed for C. BATHURST , J. BEECROFT , W. STRAHAN , J. and F. RIVINGTON , J. HINTON , L. DAVIS , HAWES , CLARKE and ...
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... first building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was round or square ; but whether it was spacious or lofty must have been referred to time . The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be ...
... first building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was round or square ; but whether it was spacious or lofty must have been referred to time . The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be ...
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... by mixing co- mick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be first stated , and then examined . : Shake- Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical PREFACE .
... by mixing co- mick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be first stated , and then examined . : Shake- Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical PREFACE .
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... first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is so much more careful to please than to instruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From ...
... first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is so much more careful to please than to instruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From ...
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... first act at Alexandria , cannot suppose that he fees the next at Rome , at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could , in so short a time , have transported him ; he knows with cer- tainty that he has not changed his place ...
... first act at Alexandria , cannot suppose that he fees the next at Rome , at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could , in so short a time , have transported him ; he knows with cer- tainty that he has not changed his place ...
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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
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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...