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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... nature , to out - doo the life ( could he but have drawn his wit as he hath hit His face the print would then surpasse · it that was ever writ in brafor But , since he cannot , reader looke Not on his picture , but his booke . Ben.Jonfon .
... nature , to out - doo the life ( could he but have drawn his wit as he hath hit His face the print would then surpasse · it that was ever writ in brafor But , since he cannot , reader looke Not on his picture , but his booke . Ben.Jonfon .
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... nature no man can properly call a river deep , or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains , and many rivers ; fo in the productions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works ...
... nature no man can properly call a river deep , or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains , and many rivers ; fo in the productions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works ...
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... nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life ...
... nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life ...
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... natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the ... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed . This ...
... natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the ... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed . This ...
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... nature has exposed him to the cenfure of criticks , who form their judgments upon narrower principles . Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not fufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire cen- fures his kings as not completely royal . Dennis is ...
... nature has exposed him to the cenfure of criticks , who form their judgments upon narrower principles . Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not fufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire cen- fures his kings as not completely royal . Dennis is ...
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