The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations, from Designs by English Artists, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1851 |
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Page xxvii
... strange fatality , the same want of authentic record , the same absence of all contemporary anecdote , marks every stage of his life . Even the date at which his first play appeared is unknown , and the greatest uncertainty prevails ...
... strange fatality , the same want of authentic record , the same absence of all contemporary anecdote , marks every stage of his life . Even the date at which his first play appeared is unknown , and the greatest uncertainty prevails ...
Page lxxi
... strange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of those laws which have been insti- tuted and established by the joint authority of pcets and of critics ...
... strange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of those laws which have been insti- tuted and established by the joint authority of pcets and of critics ...
Page lxxviii
... strange events and fabulous transactions ; and that incredibility , by which maturer knowlege is offended , was the chief recommendation of writings , to unskilful curiosity . and Our author's plots are generally borrowed from novels ...
... strange events and fabulous transactions ; and that incredibility , by which maturer knowlege is offended , was the chief recommendation of writings , to unskilful curiosity . and Our author's plots are generally borrowed from novels ...
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... strange mistakes by ignorance or negligence , and that therefore something may be properly attempted by criticism , keeping the middle way between presumption and timidity . Such criticism I have attempted to practise , and where any ...
... strange mistakes by ignorance or negligence , and that therefore something may be properly attempted by criticism , keeping the middle way between presumption and timidity . Such criticism I have attempted to practise , and where any ...
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... strange , bountiful Fortune , Now , my dear lady , hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence , If now I court not , but omit , my fortunes ...
... strange , bountiful Fortune , Now , my dear lady , hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence , If now I court not , but omit , my fortunes ...
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