Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
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... mind can only repofe on the stability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other pocts a character is ...
... mind can only repofe on the stability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other pocts a character is ...
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... mind , but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided be- tween serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fometimes pro- duce duce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
... mind , but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided be- tween serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fometimes pro- duce duce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
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... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the ftory , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dialogue , he never ...
... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the ftory , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dialogue , he never ...
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... begins to move , than he counteracts himfelf ; and terror and pity , as they are rifing in the mind , are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity . A quibble A quibble is to Shakespeare , what luminous va- pours 18 PREFACE .
... begins to move , than he counteracts himfelf ; and terror and pity , as they are rifing in the mind , are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity . A quibble A quibble is to Shakespeare , what luminous va- pours 18 PREFACE .
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