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. Othello |
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1 P R E F A C E. T \ HAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead , and
that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely
to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope ...
1 P R E F A C E. T \ HAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead , and
that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely
to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope ...
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... his works fupport no opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with
invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity , nor gratify malignity ; but are read
without any other reason than the desire of pleafure , and are therefore praised
only as ...
... his works fupport no opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with
invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity , nor gratify malignity ; but are read
without any other reason than the desire of pleafure , and are therefore praised
only as ...
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The choice is right , when there is reason for choice . Other dramatists can only
gain attention by hy . perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and
unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous romances
invigorated ...
The choice is right , when there is reason for choice . Other dramatists can only
gain attention by hy . perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and
unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous romances
invigorated ...
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... this great poet have most reason to complain when he approaches nearest to
his highest excellence , and seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and
mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness , the danger of
innocence ...
... this great poet have most reason to complain when he approaches nearest to
his highest excellence , and seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and
mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness , the danger of
innocence ...
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... 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 facrifice of reason , propriety , and truth
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... 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 facrifice of reason , propriety , and truth
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| Título | 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 ... Volumen1 de The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Autor | William Shakespeare |
| Editores | Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed |
| Edición | 2 |
| Editor | C. Bathurst, 1778 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad Estatal de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 30 Sep. 2014 |
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