Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and fimplicity , that it [ A 3 ] feems seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but PRE F. A CE .
... this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and fimplicity , that it [ A 3 ] feems seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but PRE F. A CE .
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... writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick fcenes , he feems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy PRE F A C E.
... writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick fcenes , he feems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy PRE F A C E.
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... feems to be skill , his comedy to be inftinct . The force of his comick fcenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half , in manners or in words . As his perfonages act upon principles arising from ...
... feems to be skill , his comedy to be inftinct . The force of his comick fcenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half , in manners or in words . As his perfonages act upon principles arising from ...
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... feems to have gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author equally remote , and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied as one of the original masters of ...
... feems to have gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author equally remote , and among his other excellencies deferves to be ftudied as one of the original masters of ...
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... feems not always fully to comprehend his own defign . He omits opportunities of inftructing or delighting , which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects thofe thofe exhibitions which would be more ...
... feems not always fully to comprehend his own defign . He omits opportunities of inftructing or delighting , which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects thofe thofe exhibitions which would be more ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...