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... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obser- vation and experience , no other test can be applied than ...
... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obser- vation and experience , no other test can be applied than ...
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... excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge ...
... excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge ...
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... excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that should form his expecta- tions of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived ...
... excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that should form his expecta- tions of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived ...
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... excellence , and seems fully resolved to sink them in dejection , and mollify them with ten- der emotions , by the fall of greatness , the danger of innocence , or the crosses of love . What he does best , he soon ceases to do . He is ...
... excellence , and seems fully resolved to sink them in dejection , and mollify them with ten- der emotions , by the fall of greatness , the danger of innocence , or the crosses of love . What he does best , he soon ceases to do . He is ...
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... excellence : that his vir- tues be rated with his failings : but from the censure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I shall , with due reverence to that learning which I must oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him ...
... excellence : that his vir- tues be rated with his failings : but from the censure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I shall , with due reverence to that learning which I must oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him ...
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