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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... those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the com- mon criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs ...
... those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the com- mon criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs ...
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... those who speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modifh innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of fpeech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish ...
... those who speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modifh innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of fpeech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish ...
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... comprehend his own defign . He omits opportunities of inftructing or delighting , which the train of his ftory feems to force upon him , and apparently rejects thofe those exhibitions which would be more affecting , for the PREFACE . 15.
... comprehend his own defign . He omits opportunities of inftructing or delighting , which the train of his ftory feems to force upon him , and apparently rejects thofe those exhibitions which would be more affecting , for the PREFACE . 15.
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed. those exhibitions which would be more affecting , for the fake of those which are more easy . It may be obferved , that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed. those exhibitions which would be more affecting , for the fake of those which are more easy . It may be obferved , that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently ...
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... those who have more leifure to bestow upon it . Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and ...
... those who have more leifure to bestow upon it . Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and ...
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