Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a com- plaint likely to be always continued by thofe , who ... honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye ...
... honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a com- plaint likely to be always continued by thofe , who ... honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye ...
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... variations of tafte and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every tranf- miffion . [ A 2 ] But But because human judgment , though it be gra- dually PREF A CE.
... variations of tafte and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every tranf- miffion . [ A 2 ] But But because human judgment , though it be gra- dually PREF A CE.
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... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from [ C 4 ] from ...
... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from [ C 4 ] from ...
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... honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to entangle different plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may be at least forgiven him , by those who recollect , that of ...
... honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to entangle different plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may be at least forgiven him , by those who recollect , that of ...
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... honour , be it more or lefs , fhould be transferred to the first claimant , for his right , and his alone , ftands above difpute ; the fecond can prove his pretenfions only to himself , nor can himself always diftinguish invention ...
... honour , be it more or lefs , fhould be transferred to the first claimant , for his right , and his alone , ftands above difpute ; the fecond can prove his pretenfions only to himself , nor can himself always diftinguish invention ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...