Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , supposes , that when the play opens the spec- tator really imagines himself at Alexandria , and be- lieves that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt , and that he lives in ...
... first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , supposes , that when the play opens the spec- tator really imagines himself at Alexandria , and be- lieves that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt , and that he lives in ...
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... first Athens , and then Sicily , which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens , but a modern theatre . By supposition , as place is introduced , time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most part ...
... first Athens , and then Sicily , which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens , but a modern theatre . By supposition , as place is introduced , time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most part ...
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... first act passed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and such cen- fures are fuitable to the minute and flender criticifm of Voltaire : Non ...
... first act passed at Venice , and his next in Cyprus . Such violations of rules merely positive , become the comprehenfive genius of Shakespeare , and such cen- fures are fuitable to the minute and flender criticifm of Voltaire : Non ...
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... first , whoever they be , must take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the resemblance is therefore just , their descriptions are verified by every eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft ...
... first , whoever they be , must take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the resemblance is therefore just , their descriptions are verified by every eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft ...
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... first discovered to how much smoothness and harmony the English lan- guage could be softened . He has speeches , perhaps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly ...
... first discovered to how much smoothness and harmony the English lan- guage could be softened . He has speeches , perhaps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly ...
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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...