The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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... faults , indeed , -fi quid prodeft delicta fateri , -within half a century , ( when the prefent race of voluminous criticks is extinct ) cannot fail to he remedied by a judicious and frugal felection from the labours of us all . Nor is ...
... faults , indeed , -fi quid prodeft delicta fateri , -within half a century , ( when the prefent race of voluminous criticks is extinct ) cannot fail to he remedied by a judicious and frugal felection from the labours of us all . Nor is ...
Page xxiii
... fault in the draught he has made of this lewd old fellow , it is , that though he has made him a thief , lying , cowardly , vain - glorious , and in fhort every way vicious , yet he has given him fo much wit as to make him almost too ...
... fault in the draught he has made of this lewd old fellow , it is , that though he has made him a thief , lying , cowardly , vain - glorious , and in fhort every way vicious , yet he has given him fo much wit as to make him almost too ...
Page xxvi
... faults ; but as Shakspeare lived under a kind of mere light of nature , and had never been made acquainted with the regularity of thofe written precepts , fo it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to confider ...
... faults ; but as Shakspeare lived under a kind of mere light of nature , and had never been made acquainted with the regularity of thofe written precepts , fo it would be hard to judge him by a law he knew nothing of . We are to confider ...
Page xxvii
... faults he was guilty of in it . His tales were feldom invented , but rather taken either from the true hif tory , or novels and romances : and he commonly made use of them in that order , with thofe incidents , and that extent of time ...
... faults he was guilty of in it . His tales were feldom invented , but rather taken either from the true hif tory , or novels and romances : and he commonly made use of them in that order , with thofe incidents , and that extent of time ...
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... faults are not fhewn in an equal degree , and the fhades in this picture do not bear a juft proportion to the lights , it is not that the artist wanted either colours or skill in the difpofition of them ; but the truth , I believe ...
... faults are not fhewn in an equal degree , and the fhades in this picture do not bear a juft proportion to the lights , it is not that the artist wanted either colours or skill in the difpofition of them ; but the truth , I believe ...
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