The Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Volume 1J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors; and sold, 1734 - 45 pages |
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... thing that looks like an imita- tion of the Ancients . The delicacy of his tafte , and the natural bent of his own great Genius ( equal , if not fuperior to fome of the best of theirs ) would certainly have led him to read and ftudy ...
... thing that looks like an imita- tion of the Ancients . The delicacy of his tafte , and the natural bent of his own great Genius ( equal , if not fuperior to fome of the best of theirs ) would certainly have led him to read and ftudy ...
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... things of this kind , to fee and know what was the first effay of a fancy like Shakespear's . Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like thofe of other authors , among their leaft perfect writings ; art had fo little , and ...
... things of this kind , to fee and know what was the first effay of a fancy like Shakespear's . Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like thofe of other authors , among their leaft perfect writings ; art had fo little , and ...
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... thing from ' em ; and that if he would produce any one Topick finely treated by any of them , he would undertake to fhew Something upon the same subject at least as well writ- ten by Shakespear . The latter part of his life was spent ...
... thing from ' em ; and that if he would produce any one Topick finely treated by any of them , he would undertake to fhew Something upon the same subject at least as well writ- ten by Shakespear . The latter part of his life was spent ...
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... things which could not efcape laughter ; as when he faid in the perfon of Cafar , one fpeaking to him , 66 " Cæfar , thou dost me wrong . " He reply'd ; " Cæfar did never wrong , but with just caufe . " and fuch like , which were ...
... things which could not efcape laughter ; as when he faid in the perfon of Cafar , one fpeaking to him , 66 " Cæfar , thou dost me wrong . " He reply'd ; " Cæfar did never wrong , but with just caufe . " and fuch like , which were ...
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... things I have been pleas'd with in looking him over . His Plays are properly to be diftinguifh'd only into Comedies and Tragedies . Thofe which are called Hiftories , and even fome of his Comedies , are really Tragedies , with a run or ...
... things I have been pleas'd with in looking him over . His Plays are properly to be diftinguifh'd only into Comedies and Tragedies . Thofe which are called Hiftories , and even fome of his Comedies , are really Tragedies , with a run or ...
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Page 3 - There's legions now of beggars on the earth, That their original did spring from kings; And many monarchs now, whose fathers were The riff-raff of their age : for time and fortune Wears out a noble train to beggary; And from the dunghill minions do advance To state and mark in this admiring world.