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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... fhew an ufurper and a murderer not only odious , but defpicable ; he therefore added drunkennefs to his other qualities , knowing that kings love wine like other men , and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings . Thefe are the ...
... fhew an ufurper and a murderer not only odious , but defpicable ; he therefore added drunkennefs to his other qualities , knowing that kings love wine like other men , and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings . Thefe are the ...
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... fhew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently difcuffed than a dead poet's pretenfions to renown ; and little regard is due to that ...
... fhew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently difcuffed than a dead poet's pretenfions to renown ; and little regard is due to that ...
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... fhew how much his ftores of knowledge could fup- ply , he feldom efcapes without the pity or refentment of his reader . It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy fentiment , which he cannot well exprefs , and ...
... fhew how much his ftores of knowledge could fup- ply , he feldom efcapes without the pity or refentment of his reader . It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy fentiment , which he cannot well exprefs , and ...
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... fhew them in full view by proper combinations . In this part of his performances he had none to imitate , but has been himself imitated by all fucceeding writers ; and it may be doubted , whether from all his fucceffors more maxims of ...
... fhew them in full view by proper combinations . In this part of his performances he had none to imitate , but has been himself imitated by all fucceeding writers ; and it may be doubted , whether from all his fucceffors more maxims of ...
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... fhew that he has corrupted language by every mode of depravation , but which his admirer has accumu- lated as a monument of honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were ...
... fhew that he has corrupted language by every mode of depravation , but which his admirer has accumu- lated as a monument of honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excel- lence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were ...
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