Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... These elevations and depreffions of renown , and the contradictions to which all improvers of know- ledge must for ever be expofed , fince they are not VOL . I. escaped [ D ] efcaped by the higheft and brighteft of mankind , may PREFACE .
... These elevations and depreffions of renown , and the contradictions to which all improvers of know- ledge must for ever be expofed , fince they are not VOL . I. escaped [ D ] efcaped by the higheft and brighteft of mankind , may PREFACE .
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... These are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuperfluously copious , nor fcrupulously referved , and hope that I have made my author's meaning acceffible to many , who before were ...
... These are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuperfluously copious , nor fcrupulously referved , and hope that I have made my author's meaning acceffible to many , who before were ...
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... these which are praised much to be condemned . The part of criticifm in which the whole fucceffion of editors has laboured with the greatcft diligence , which has occafioned the moft arrogant oftentation , and excited the keenest ...
... these which are praised much to be condemned . The part of criticifm in which the whole fucceffion of editors has laboured with the greatcft diligence , which has occafioned the moft arrogant oftentation , and excited the keenest ...
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... these rarities very communicative . Of the editions which chance or kindness put into my hands I have given an enume- ration , that I may not be blamed for neglecting what I had not the power to do . By examining the old copies , I foon ...
... these rarities very communicative . Of the editions which chance or kindness put into my hands I have given an enume- ration , that I may not be blamed for neglecting what I had not the power to do . By examining the old copies , I foon ...
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... these I anfwer with confidence , that they are judging of an art which they do not understand ; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance , nor pro- mife that they would become in general , by learning criticism , more useful ...
... these I anfwer with confidence , that they are judging of an art which they do not understand ; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance , nor pro- mife that they would become in general , by learning criticism , more useful ...
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Página 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Página 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...