Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor |
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... but works tentative and experimental must be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of ... it might be with certainty determined that it was round or fquare ; but whether it was fpacious or lofty must ...
... but works tentative and experimental must be eftimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of ... it might be with certainty determined that it was round or fquare ; but whether it was fpacious or lofty must ...
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For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical justice , without making any other demand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings ...
For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical justice , without making any other demand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings ...
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They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with juft gefture and elegant modulation . The lines relate to fome action , and an action must be be in fome place ; but the different actions that PREFACE .
They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with juft gefture and elegant modulation . The lines relate to fome action , and an action must be be in fome place ; but the different actions that PREFACE .
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Every man's performances , to be rightly estimated , must be compared with the state of the age in which he lived , and with his own particular opportunities ; and though to the reader a book be not worse or better for the circumftances ...
Every man's performances , to be rightly estimated , must be compared with the state of the age in which he lived , and with his own particular opportunities ; and though to the reader a book be not worse or better for the circumftances ...
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He knew how he should most please ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we still find that on our stage fomething must be done as well as faid , and inactive ...
He knew how he should most please ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we still find that on our stage fomething must be done as well as faid , and inactive ...
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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...
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| Título | Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor Volumen1 de The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Autor | William Shakespeare |
| Editores | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens |
| Editor | C. Bathurst, 1773 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 28 Dic. 2006 |
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