Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... true conftruction : the reader is mistaken if he thinks this done through ignorance . I will inftance in a correction of a paffage of Virgil , Aen . IV , 256 . which , among many other corrections , I chiefly make choice of , because ...
... true conftruction : the reader is mistaken if he thinks this done through ignorance . I will inftance in a correction of a paffage of Virgil , Aen . IV , 256 . which , among many other corrections , I chiefly make choice of , because ...
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... true Johnson fays very handsome things of him pre- fently after : for people will allow others any qualities , but those which they highly value themselves for . He He was bred in a learned age , when even 12 Book I. Gritical Obfervations.
... true Johnson fays very handsome things of him pre- fently after : for people will allow others any qualities , but those which they highly value themselves for . He He was bred in a learned age , when even 12 Book I. Gritical Obfervations.
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... true , of genius , who fays , now and then , very good things , but wild and uncultivated ; and as one by no means proper compa- ny for lords , and ladies , maids of honour , and court - pages , ' till fome poet or other , who knows the ...
... true , of genius , who fays , now and then , very good things , but wild and uncultivated ; and as one by no means proper compa- ny for lords , and ladies , maids of honour , and court - pages , ' till fome poet or other , who knows the ...
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... true Perhaps bishop Burnet took his cenfure from Dryden's dedication before the translation of Juvenal ; where he ... true , in order that his own wares might go off the better . The folly is to વંદ ' true ornament of poem or good ...
... true Perhaps bishop Burnet took his cenfure from Dryden's dedication before the translation of Juvenal ; where he ... true , in order that his own wares might go off the better . The folly is to વંદ ' true ornament of poem or good ...
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John Upton. વંદ ' true ornament of poem or good verse , in long " works efpecially , but the invention of a bar- barous age , to fet off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac'd indeed fince by the ufe " of fome famous modern poets ...
John Upton. વંદ ' true ornament of poem or good verse , in long " works efpecially , but the invention of a bar- barous age , to fet off wretched matter and lame metre ; grac'd indeed fince by the ufe " of fome famous modern poets ...
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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...