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One of the great Admirers of this incomparable Author bath made it the
amusement of his leisure hours for many years past to look over his writings with
a careful eye , to note the obscurities and absurdities introduced into the text ,
and ...
One of the great Admirers of this incomparable Author bath made it the
amusement of his leisure hours for many years past to look over his writings with
a careful eye , to note the obscurities and absurdities introduced into the text ,
and ...
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I will conclude by saying of Shakespear , that with all his faults , and with all the
irregularity of his Drama , one may look upon his works , in comparison of those
that are more finish'd and regular , as upon an ancient majestick piece of Gothick
...
I will conclude by saying of Shakespear , that with all his faults , and with all the
irregularity of his Drama , one may look upon his works , in comparison of those
that are more finish'd and regular , as upon an ancient majestick piece of Gothick
...
Page xxx
It is without controversy , that in his works we scarce find any traces of any thing
that looks like an imitation of the Ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the
natural bent of his own great Genius , ( equal , if not superior to some of the best
of ...
It is without controversy , that in his works we scarce find any traces of any thing
that looks like an imitation of the Ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the
natural bent of his own great Genius , ( equal , if not superior to some of the best
of ...
Page xxxi
Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like those of other authors ,
among their lealt perfect writings ; art had so little , and nature so large a share in
what he did , that , for ought I know , the performances of his youth , as they were
the ...
Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like those of other authors ,
among their lealt perfect writings ; art had so little , and nature so large a share in
what he did , that , for ought I know , the performances of his youth , as they were
the ...
Page xlvi
For a good Poet's made , as well as born . wert thou , Look how the Father's face
Lives in his Issue , even so the race Of Shakespear's mind and manners brightly
fines In his well torned , and true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake
...
For a good Poet's made , as well as born . wert thou , Look how the Father's face
Lives in his Issue , even so the race Of Shakespear's mind and manners brightly
fines In his well torned , and true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake
...
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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...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1 The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Sir Thomas Hanmer |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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