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... taste and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every transmission . But because human judgment , though it be gradually gaining upon certainty , never becomes ...
... taste and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one generation to another , have received new honours at every transmission . But because human judgment , though it be gradually gaining upon certainty , never becomes ...
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... taste of the insipidity of truth . A play , which imitated only the common occurrences of the world , would , upon the admirers of Palmerin and Guy of War- wick , have made little impression ; he that wrote for such an audience was ...
... taste of the insipidity of truth . A play , which imitated only the common occurrences of the world , would , upon the admirers of Palmerin and Guy of War- wick , have made little impression ; he that wrote for such an audience was ...
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... taste . Conjectural criticism demands more than humanity pos- sesses , and he that exercises it with most praise , has very frequent need of indulgence . Let us now be told no more of the dull duty of an editor . Confidence is the ...
... taste . Conjectural criticism demands more than humanity pos- sesses , and he that exercises it with most praise , has very frequent need of indulgence . Let us now be told no more of the dull duty of an editor . Confidence is the ...
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... taste . Many of his explanations are curious and use- ful , but he , likewise , though he professed to oppose the licentious confidence of editors , and adhere to the old copies , is unable to restrain the rage of emendation , though ...
... taste . Many of his explanations are curious and use- ful , but he , likewise , though he professed to oppose the licentious confidence of editors , and adhere to the old copies , is unable to restrain the rage of emendation , though ...
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... taste of mankind , and the casual fluctuation of the fashion , and can never be ascertained , like that of things only estimable according to their use . If , therefore , I have set a high value upon books : if I have vainly imagined ...
... taste of mankind , and the casual fluctuation of the fashion , and can never be ascertained , like that of things only estimable according to their use . If , therefore , I have set a high value upon books : if I have vainly imagined ...
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Page 56 - heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty frieze, Buttrice, nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate. In this short scene, I propose a slight alteration to
Page 75 - Tis his main hope : For where there is advantage to be given, Both more and less have given him the revolt ; And none serve with him but constrained things, Whose hearts are absent too. The impropriety of the expresssion advantage to be given, instead of advantage given, and the disagreeable
Page 56 - NOTE XV. SCENE VIII. King. This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. Ban. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that
Page 63 - so, For Banquo's issue have I 'fil'd my mind ; For them, the gracious Duncan have I murther'd, Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them ; and mine eternal jewel Given to the (2) common enemy of man, To make them kings,—the
Page 73 - for which he makes a short apology, and retires. NOTE XXXIX. SCENE IV. Malcolm. Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty. Macdujf. Let us rather Hold fast the mortal sword; and, like good men, Bestride our
Page 72 - Each way, and (2) move. I'll take my leave of you: Shall not be long but I'll be here again : Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before: my pretty cousin, Blessing upon you ! (1)
Page 55 - toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th
Page 72 - fear, yet know not what we fear. Or, in a sense very applicable to the occasion of the conference: when the bold, running From what they fear, yet know not what they fear. (2) But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way, and move. That he who floats upon a rough sea must move, is
Page 49 - do. 2 Witch. I'll give thee a wind 1 Witch. Thou art kind. 3 Witch. And I another. 1 Witch. I myself have all the other. And the (2) very points they blow; All the quarters that they know, F th' ship-man's card. I will drain him dry as hay, Sleep shall neither night nor
Page 72 - (1) When we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we fear. The present reading seems to afford no sense; and, therefore, some critical experiments may be properly tried upon it, though, the verses being without any