Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ...
... eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ...
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... eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labours were exhibited had more skill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted fome vifible and ...
... eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our author's labours were exhibited had more skill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and perhaps wanted fome vifible and ...
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... eye with awful pomp , and gratifying the mind with endless diversity . Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities , minutely finished , wrought into fhape , and polished unto brightness . Shakespeare opens a mine which contains ...
... eye with awful pomp , and gratifying the mind with endless diversity . Other poets display cabinets of precious rarities , minutely finished , wrought into fhape , and polished unto brightness . Shakespeare opens a mine which contains ...
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... eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame invites to the fame studies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to stand in [ C 3 ] the the place of ...
... eye , and their fentiments acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame invites to the fame studies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to stand in [ C 3 ] the the place of ...
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... eyes ; he gives the image which he receives , not weakened or diftorted by the intervention of any other mind , the ignorant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are complete . Perhaps it would not be cafy ...
... eyes ; he gives the image which he receives , not weakened or diftorted by the intervention of any other mind , the ignorant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are complete . Perhaps it would not be cafy ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...