The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
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... kind as to give their affiftance by communicating their obfervations and conjectures upon difficult paffages which had oc- curred to them . Thus by degrees the work growing a 3 more more confiderable than was at first expected , they ...
... kind as to give their affiftance by communicating their obfervations and conjectures upon difficult paffages which had oc- curred to them . Thus by degrees the work growing a 3 more more confiderable than was at first expected , they ...
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... kind than can well be conceived but by thoje who have looked nearly into them ; fo in the correcting them this rule bath been moft ftrictly obferved , not to give a loofe to fancy , or indulge a licentious fpirit of criticism , as if it ...
... kind than can well be conceived but by thoje who have looked nearly into them ; fo in the correcting them this rule bath been moft ftrictly obferved , not to give a loofe to fancy , or indulge a licentious fpirit of criticism , as if it ...
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... kind , a note is put at the bottom of the page to clear up the difficulty . With thefe feveral helps if that rich vein of fenfe which runs through the works of this Author can be retrieved in every part and brought to appear in its ...
... kind , a note is put at the bottom of the page to clear up the difficulty . With thefe feveral helps if that rich vein of fenfe which runs through the works of this Author can be retrieved in every part and brought to appear in its ...
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... kind of people . In Tragedy , nothing was fo fure to Surprize and caufe Admiration , as the most strange , unexpected , and confequently moft most unnatural , Events and Incidents ; the moft ex- Mr. POPE's PREFACE . xiii.
... kind of people . In Tragedy , nothing was fo fure to Surprize and caufe Admiration , as the most strange , unexpected , and confequently moft most unnatural , Events and Incidents ; the moft ex- Mr. POPE's PREFACE . xiii.
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... kind- nefs ; he tells us that he lov'd the man , as well as honoured his memory ; celebrates the honefty , open- nefs , and frankness of his temper ; and only diftin- guifhes , as he reafonably ought , between the real merit of the ...
... kind- nefs ; he tells us that he lov'd the man , as well as honoured his memory ; celebrates the honefty , open- nefs , and frankness of his temper ; and only diftin- guifhes , as he reafonably ought , between the real merit of the ...
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 66 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...