Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... ; and after I had printed a few plays , refolved to infert none of my own readings in the text . Upon this caution I now congratulate myself , for every day this PREFACE . This method would at once quell a thousand abfur. ...
... ; and after I had printed a few plays , refolved to infert none of my own readings in the text . Upon this caution I now congratulate myself , for every day this PREFACE . This method would at once quell a thousand abfur. ...
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... printed as profe , and from their own construction are incapable of being compreffed into verse , without the aid of fupplemental fyllables , are restored to prose again ; and the measure is divided afresh in others , where the mass of ...
... printed as profe , and from their own construction are incapable of being compreffed into verse , without the aid of fupplemental fyllables , are restored to prose again ; and the measure is divided afresh in others , where the mass of ...
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... printed originally in small numbers , being thus neglected , were foon de- ftroyed ; and though the capital authors were pre- ferved , ferved , they were preferved to languish without re- gard ADVERTISEMENT to the READER .
... printed originally in small numbers , being thus neglected , were foon de- ftroyed ; and though the capital authors were pre- ferved , ferved , they were preferved to languish without re- gard ADVERTISEMENT to the READER .
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... printed for Nath . Butter no date The Crowne of all Homer's Workes , Batrachomyo- machia , & c . thin fol . printed by John Bill no date MUSEU S. Marloe's Hero and Leander , with the first Book of Lucan , 4to . 1600 There must have been ...
... printed for Nath . Butter no date The Crowne of all Homer's Workes , Batrachomyo- machia , & c . thin fol . printed by John Bill no date MUSEU S. Marloe's Hero and Leander , with the first Book of Lucan , 4to . 1600 There must have been ...
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... Printed by Caxton . This Work like Caxton's Buke of Eneydos ) was tranflated from the French of Raoul Le Feure * . PLATO . Axiochus , a Dialogue , attributed to Plato , by . Edm . Spenfer , 4to . 1592 - DEMOSTHENE S. The Three Orations ...
... Printed by Caxton . This Work like Caxton's Buke of Eneydos ) was tranflated from the French of Raoul Le Feure * . PLATO . Axiochus , a Dialogue , attributed to Plato , by . Edm . Spenfer , 4to . 1592 - DEMOSTHENE S. The Three Orations ...
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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...