Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... English drama are his . He seems , says Dennis , to have been the very original of our English tragical barmony , that is , the harmony of blank verfe , diverfified often by diffyllable and trifyllable ter- minations . For the diverfity ...
... English drama are his . He seems , says Dennis , to have been the very original of our English tragical barmony , that is , the harmony of blank verfe , diverfified often by diffyllable and trifyllable ter- minations . For the diverfity ...
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... English lan- guage could be foftened . He has fpeeches , perhaps fometimes fcenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to ftrike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but ...
... English lan- guage could be foftened . He has fpeeches , perhaps fometimes fcenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to ftrike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but ...
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... English printers , that they could very patiently endure it . At last an edition was un- dertaken by Rowe ; not because a poet was to be published by a poet , for Rowe seems to have thought very little on correction or explanation , but ...
... English printers , that they could very patiently endure it . At last an edition was un- dertaken by Rowe ; not because a poet was to be published by a poet , for Rowe seems to have thought very little on correction or explanation , but ...
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... English writers has enabled him to make fome ufeful obfervations . What he undertook he has well enough performed , but as he neither attempts judicial nor emendatory criticifin , he employs rather his memory than his fagacity . It ...
... English writers has enabled him to make fome ufeful obfervations . What he undertook he has well enough performed , but as he neither attempts judicial nor emendatory criticifin , he employs rather his memory than his fagacity . It ...
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... English Bentley . The criticks on ancient authors have , in the exercife of their fagacity , many affiftances , which the editor of Shakespeare is condemned to want . They are em- ployed upon grammatical and fettled languages , whofe ...
... English Bentley . The criticks on ancient authors have , in the exercife of their fagacity , many affiftances , which the editor of Shakespeare is condemned to want . They are em- ployed upon grammatical and fettled languages , whofe ...
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Page 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...