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Page xvii
I have not been able to procure a sight of this pamphlet , and therefore can only venture to speak from conjecture - but I am disposed to believe that it furnished our poets with little more than a titlepage .
I have not been able to procure a sight of this pamphlet , and therefore can only venture to speak from conjecture - but I am disposed to believe that it furnished our poets with little more than a titlepage .
Page xxiv
It is not easy to speak too favourably of the poetry of this play in the more impassioned passages ; it is in truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state , would glare with ...
It is not easy to speak too favourably of the poetry of this play in the more impassioned passages ; it is in truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state , would glare with ...
Page lxi
These fell , of course , into the hands of Mr. Weber , and constitute the only valuable part of his publication , for his own notes are of the most contemptible kind — yet he has the hardihood to speak of Mr. Monck Mason as if he had ...
These fell , of course , into the hands of Mr. Weber , and constitute the only valuable part of his publication , for his own notes are of the most contemptible kind — yet he has the hardihood to speak of Mr. Monck Mason as if he had ...
Page lxxxiv
You speak ingeniously . " Ingenious was anciently used for ingenuous . " to set you forth . to set me forth . Never was a more idle observation : the speaker means as she says , i . e . wittily . G. 31. W. 139. - Truth and honour .
You speak ingeniously . " Ingenious was anciently used for ingenuous . " to set you forth . to set me forth . Never was a more idle observation : the speaker means as she says , i . e . wittily . G. 31. W. 139. - Truth and honour .
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me to speak ; and in Jonson , it is an injunction to be silent ! But this is Mr. Weber's usual luck . G. 38. W. 146. - Confined to the castle , where he now lies . Read : Confined to the castle , where he yet lives .
me to speak ; and in Jonson , it is an injunction to be silent ! But this is Mr. Weber's usual luck . G. 38. W. 146. - Confined to the castle , where he now lies . Read : Confined to the castle , where he yet lives .
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