The Works of Shakespear, Volume 1Printed at the Theatre, 1744 |
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Page ii
... thought it worth being made publick ; and he , who hath with difficulty yielded to their perfuafions , is far from defiring to reflect upon the late Editors for the omiffions and defects which they left to be Supplied by others who ...
... thought it worth being made publick ; and he , who hath with difficulty yielded to their perfuafions , is far from defiring to reflect upon the late Editors for the omiffions and defects which they left to be Supplied by others who ...
Page vi
... thought it glory enough to distinguish themselves in either . Since therefore other nations have taken care to dignify the works of their most celebrated Poets with the fairest impreffions beautified with the ornaments of Sculpture ...
... thought it glory enough to distinguish themselves in either . Since therefore other nations have taken care to dignify the works of their most celebrated Poets with the fairest impreffions beautified with the ornaments of Sculpture ...
Page ix
... thoughts : So that he seems to have known the world by Intuition , to have look'd thro ' human nature at one glance , and to be the only Author that gives ground 3 for a very new opinion , That the Philofopher b2 for Mr. POPE'S PREFACE .
... thoughts : So that he seems to have known the world by Intuition , to have look'd thro ' human nature at one glance , and to be the only Author that gives ground 3 for a very new opinion , That the Philofopher b2 for Mr. POPE'S PREFACE .
Page xi
... Thoughts ; the most verbose and bombaft Expreffion ; the most pompous Rhymes , and thundering Verfification . In Comedy , nothing was so sure to Please , as mean buffoonry , vile ribaldry , and unmannerly jefts of fools and clowns . Yet ...
... Thoughts ; the most verbose and bombaft Expreffion ; the most pompous Rhymes , and thundering Verfification . In Comedy , nothing was so sure to Please , as mean buffoonry , vile ribaldry , and unmannerly jefts of fools and clowns . Yet ...
Page xiii
... thought a praise to Shakespear , that he scarce ever blotted a line . This they industriously propa- gated , as appears from what we are told by Ben Johnson in his Discoveries , and from the preface of Heminges and Con- dell to the ...
... thought a praise to Shakespear , that he scarce ever blotted a line . This they industriously propa- gated , as appears from what we are told by Ben Johnson in his Discoveries , and from the preface of Heminges and Con- dell to the ...
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