Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... poet 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 ...
... poet 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 ...
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... poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candor higher than truth . His firft defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience ...
... poet's pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candor higher than truth . His firft defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience ...
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... poet have never lefs reason to indulge their hopes of fupreme excellence , than when he seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the ...
... poet have never lefs reason to indulge their hopes of fupreme excellence , than when he seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the ...
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... poets and of criticks . For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical juftice , without making any other demand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be ...
... poets and of criticks . For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical juftice , without making any other demand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be ...
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... poet of nature : but his plan has com- monly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end ; one event is concatenated with another , and the conclufion follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that ...
... poet of nature : but his plan has com- monly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end ; one event is concatenated with another , and the conclufion follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that ...
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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...