Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... Virgil , Aen . IV , 256 . which , among many other corrections , I chiefly make choice of , because some have been deceiv'd into an opinion of its fu- perior excellency and I will give it in his own words , from a note on Horace , Lib ...
... Virgil , Aen . IV , 256 . which , among many other corrections , I chiefly make choice of , because some have been deceiv'd into an opinion of its fu- perior excellency and I will give it in his own words , from a note on Horace , Lib ...
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... Virgil . The next fault is the rime volabat , fecabat : If there was any top after volabat and fecabat , some anfwer or apology fhould be made . But there is actually no more jingle in those verses of Virgil , than in these of Milton ...
... Virgil . The next fault is the rime volabat , fecabat : If there was any top after volabat and fecabat , some anfwer or apology fhould be made . But there is actually no more jingle in those verses of Virgil , than in these of Milton ...
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... Virgil , Milton has finely imitated in his 5th book . . 265 . & c . where the Dr. is at his old work , hacking and hewing . Were I to give an instance of Bentley's critical skill , I should not forget that place in the Plutus of ...
... Virgil , Milton has finely imitated in his 5th book . . 265 . & c . where the Dr. is at his old work , hacking and hewing . Were I to give an instance of Bentley's critical skill , I should not forget that place in the Plutus of ...
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... Virgil in " Latin ; rime being no neceffary adjunct or " true Perhaps bishop Burnet took his cenfure from Dryden's dedication before the translation of Juvenal ; where he says , that Milton " runs into a flat of thought fometimes for a ...
... Virgil in " Latin ; rime being no neceffary adjunct or " true Perhaps bishop Burnet took his cenfure from Dryden's dedication before the translation of Juvenal ; where he says , that Milton " runs into a flat of thought fometimes for a ...
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... Virgil and Horace were not wedded to " follow the faults of former fathers , ( a fhrewd marriage " in greater matters ) but by right imitation of the perfect " Grecians , had brought poetry to perfectness also in the " Latin tongue ...
... Virgil and Horace were not wedded to " follow the faults of former fathers , ( a fhrewd marriage " in greater matters ) but by right imitation of the perfect " Grecians , had brought poetry to perfectness also in the " Latin tongue ...
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Page 125 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 125 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 216 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 76 - ... then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 20 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, — a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
Page 95 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Page 245 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 138 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 18 - And afterwards he came out of his concealment, and lived many years much visited by all strangers, and much admired by all at home, for the poems he wrote, though he was then blind, chiefly that of Paradise Lost, in which there is a nobleness both of contrivance and execution, that, though he affected to write in blank verse, without rhyme, and made many new and rough words...
Page 76 - ... not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal ; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love ; after many traverses she is got with child; delivered of a fair boy; he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child ; and all this in two hours...