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... Same , in Two Vols . being the XV . and XVI . of the Large Octavo Edition . Pr . 10s . And in Three Vols . being the 15th , 16th and 17th of the small Octavo . Pr . 7s . 6d . Johnston . IN ' N our Review for October 1762 , we gave an ...
... Same , in Two Vols . being the XV . and XVI . of the Large Octavo Edition . Pr . 10s . And in Three Vols . being the 15th , 16th and 17th of the small Octavo . Pr . 7s . 6d . Johnston . IN ' N our Review for October 1762 , we gave an ...
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... same reafon , were fuch an establishment to take place in the present age , it would prevent all great improvements in futurity . " With refpect to the fecond point , our Author obferves , that the great object of civil fociety is the ...
... same reafon , were fuch an establishment to take place in the present age , it would prevent all great improvements in futurity . " With refpect to the fecond point , our Author obferves , that the great object of civil fociety is the ...
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... same time , none of the interlocutors are invefted ryu..tinguishing character ; the one talking much in the e rain as the other ; and juft in the fame fentiments , ex- where it is neceffary to introduce two different hiftorical ac- ts ...
... same time , none of the interlocutors are invefted ryu..tinguishing character ; the one talking much in the e rain as the other ; and juft in the fame fentiments , ex- where it is neceffary to introduce two different hiftorical ac- ts ...
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... same time fome others , of the fame fort , in an open field adjacent to the gar- den ; and he found , that the latter were by much the leaft da- maged by the winter's frofts ; nor did he perceive any great difference in the feafon of ...
... same time fome others , of the fame fort , in an open field adjacent to the gar- den ; and he found , that the latter were by much the leaft da- maged by the winter's frofts ; nor did he perceive any great difference in the feafon of ...
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... same time , the trees themselves are greatly benefited , by those frequent ftirrings of the earth about their roots . Sect . IV . contains many useful directions relating to the Diftempers of Fruit - trees ; for which we refer to the ...
... same time , the trees themselves are greatly benefited , by those frequent ftirrings of the earth about their roots . Sect . IV . contains many useful directions relating to the Diftempers of Fruit - trees ; for which we refer to the ...
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Página 286 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Página 287 - It is objected that by this change of scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression, and that the principal event, being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents, wants at last the power to move which constitutes the perfection of dramatic poetry.
Página 287 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Página 377 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.
Página 218 - Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action.
Página 287 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 286 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Página 285 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Página 289 - He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled ; he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare...
Página 288 - ... how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader.