Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... fuppofe that he fees the next at Rome , at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could , in fo fhort a time , have transported him ; he knows with cer- tainty that he has not changed his place ; and he knows that place cannot ...
... fuppofe that he fees the next at Rome , at a distance to which not the dragons of Medea could , in fo fhort a time , have transported him ; he knows with cer- tainty that he has not changed his place ; and he knows that place cannot ...
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... fuppofe , that , when he rofe to notice , he did not want the counfels and admonitions of fcholars and criticks , and that he at last deliberately perfifted in a practice , which he might have begun by chance . As nothing is effential ...
... fuppofe , that , when he rofe to notice , he did not want the counfels and admonitions of fcholars and criticks , and that he at last deliberately perfifted in a practice , which he might have begun by chance . As nothing is effential ...
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... fuppofe , fince the ardor of compofition is remitted , he no longer num- bers among his happy effufions . The original and predominant error of his com- mentary , is acquiefcence in his firft thoughts ; that precipitation which is ...
... fuppofe , fince the ardor of compofition is remitted , he no longer num- bers among his happy effufions . The original and predominant error of his com- mentary , is acquiefcence in his firft thoughts ; that precipitation which is ...
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... fuppofe com- monly to be right , at least I intend by acquiefcence to confefs , that I have nothing better to propofe . After the labours of all the editors , I found many paffages which appeared to me likely to obftruct the greater ...
... fuppofe com- monly to be right , at least I intend by acquiefcence to confefs , that I have nothing better to propofe . After the labours of all the editors , I found many paffages which appeared to me likely to obftruct the greater ...
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... fuppofe whatever is easy to his own apprehenfion , will prove fo to that of others , and confequently may pass over fome real perplexities in filence . On the contrary , if in confideration of the different abilities of every clafs of ...
... fuppofe whatever is easy to his own apprehenfion , will prove fo to that of others , and confequently may pass over fome real perplexities in filence . On the contrary , if in confideration of the different abilities of every clafs of ...
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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...