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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... fubject to any of their laws ; nothing more is neceffary to all the praise which they expect , than that the changes of action be fo prepared as to be understood , that the incidents be various and af- fecting , and the characters ...
... fubject to any of their laws ; nothing more is neceffary to all the praise which they expect , than that the changes of action be fo prepared as to be understood , that the incidents be various and af- fecting , and the characters ...
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... fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he gives the image which he receives , not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignotant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned ...
... fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he gives the image which he receives , not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignotant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned ...
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... fubject ; the reader is weary , he fufpects not why ; and at last throws away the book which he has too diligently studied . Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been furveyed ; there is a kind of intellectual re- moteness ...
... fubject ; the reader is weary , he fufpects not why ; and at last throws away the book which he has too diligently studied . Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been furveyed ; there is a kind of intellectual re- moteness ...
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... fubject for his wit , and did not then " raife himself as high above the rest of poets , " Quantum lenia folent inter viburna cupreffi . " It is to be lamented , that fuch a writer fhould want a commentary ; that his language fhould be ...
... fubject for his wit , and did not then " raife himself as high above the rest of poets , " Quantum lenia folent inter viburna cupreffi . " It is to be lamented , that fuch a writer fhould want a commentary ; that his language fhould be ...
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... fubject . The dispute about the learning of Shakespeare being now finally fettled , a catalogue is added of thofe tranflated authors , whom Mr. Pope has thought proper to call The claffics of an age that heard of none . The reader may ...
... fubject . The dispute about the learning of Shakespeare being now finally fettled , a catalogue is added of thofe tranflated authors , whom Mr. Pope has thought proper to call The claffics of an age that heard of none . The reader may ...
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