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... equally ab- furd , that feveral large towns are not reprefented at all , though full of induftrious inhabitants , who much advance the trade of the kingdom ? He mentions the claim of fenators , to have themfelves and fervants exempted ...
... equally ab- furd , that feveral large towns are not reprefented at all , though full of induftrious inhabitants , who much advance the trade of the kingdom ? He mentions the claim of fenators , to have themfelves and fervants exempted ...
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... to letters , infead of illa les , and of attempting to teach the found of one letter by that of another equally mute or equivocal . C 3 Speake Speakers as loofe , goofe , & c . and WISEMAN's Complete English Grammar . 21.
... to letters , infead of illa les , and of attempting to teach the found of one letter by that of another equally mute or equivocal . C 3 Speake Speakers as loofe , goofe , & c . and WISEMAN's Complete English Grammar . 21.
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... equally impoffible for the child to be marked with thofe objects : all the external marks , which have been ridiculously afcribed to the force of imagination , being the confequences of the mecha- nifm , which fecundates the egg , that ...
... equally impoffible for the child to be marked with thofe objects : all the external marks , which have been ridiculously afcribed to the force of imagination , being the confequences of the mecha- nifm , which fecundates the egg , that ...
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... equally weak with regard to the blood which paffes to the body of the child , fhe can neither regulate the motion or quantity of it , the cannot ftop thofe particles from paffing , which occafion difeafes or death to the infant . Every ...
... equally weak with regard to the blood which paffes to the body of the child , fhe can neither regulate the motion or quantity of it , the cannot ftop thofe particles from paffing , which occafion difeafes or death to the infant . Every ...
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... equally unreasonable to afcribe the whole as nothing to the climate . It is only of late we have fallen into these two extremes , and the difpute is in no other refpect novel , mankind being never at a loss how to judge in fuch matters ...
... equally unreasonable to afcribe the whole as nothing to the climate . It is only of late we have fallen into these two extremes , and the difpute is in no other refpect novel , mankind being never at a loss how to judge in fuch matters ...
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Página 286 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Página 287 - It is objected that by this change of scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression, and that the principal event, being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents, wants at last the power to move which constitutes the perfection of dramatic poetry.
Página 287 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Página 377 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.
Página 218 - Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action.
Página 287 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 286 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Página 285 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Página 289 - He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled ; he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare...
Página 288 - ... how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader.