The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition, Volume 1H. Baldwin and son, for C. Dilly, 1798 |
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Page ii
... thing that looks like an imitation 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 study ...
... thing that looks like an imitation 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 study ...
Page iv
... things of this kind , to fee and know what was the firft effay of a fancy like Shakspeare's . Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like thofe of other authors , among their least perfect writings ; art had fo little , and ...
... things of this kind , to fee and know what was the firft effay of a fancy like Shakspeare's . Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings , like thofe of other authors , among their least perfect writings ; art had fo little , and ...
Page vii
... thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topick finely treat- ed by any one of them , he would undertake to fhews fomething upon the same subject at least as well writ ten by Shakspeare . The latter part of his life was ...
... thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topick finely treat- ed by any one of them , he would undertake to fhews fomething upon the same subject at least as well writ ten by Shakspeare . The latter part of his life was ...
Page ix
... things which could not efcape laughter ; as " when he faid in the perfon of Cæfar , one fpeak- ❝ing to him , " Cæsar thou dost me wrong . " He replied : " Cæsar did never wrong , but with just cause . " " and fuch like , which were ...
... things which could not efcape laughter ; as " when he faid in the perfon of Cæfar , one fpeak- ❝ing to him , " Cæsar thou dost me wrong . " He replied : " Cæsar did never wrong , but with just cause . " " and fuch like , which were ...
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... things I have been pleased with in looking him over . His plays are properly to be diftinguished only into comedies and tragedies . Those which are called hiftories , and even fome of his comedies , are really tragedies , with a run or ...
... things I have been pleased with in looking him over . His plays are properly to be diftinguished only into comedies and tragedies . Those which are called hiftories , and even fome of his comedies , are really tragedies , with a run or ...
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