Some account of the life, etc. of Wm. Shakespeare, by [Nicholas] Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaVernor, Hood and Sharp, 1809 |
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... believe we are better pleased with those thoughts , alto- gether new and uncommon , which his own imagination supplied him so abundantly with , than if he had given us the most beautiful passages out of the Greek and Latin poets , and ...
... believe we are better pleased with those thoughts , alto- gether new and uncommon , which his own imagination supplied him so abundantly with , than if he had given us the most beautiful passages out of the Greek and Latin poets , and ...
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... believe it must be allowed , that what nature gave the latter , was more than a balance for what books had given the former ; and the judgement of a great man upon this occasion was , I think , very just and proper . In a conversation ...
... believe it must be allowed , that what nature gave the latter , was more than a balance for what books had given the former ; and the judgement of a great man upon this occasion was , I think , very just and proper . In a conversation ...
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... believe it may be as well expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans , who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models ( or indeed translated them ) in his epistle to Augustus : -naturĂ¢ sublimis et acer : Nam spirat tragicum satis , et ...
... believe it may be as well expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans , who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models ( or indeed translated them ) in his epistle to Augustus : -naturĂ¢ sublimis et acer : Nam spirat tragicum satis , et ...
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... believe , Thersites in Troilus and Cressida , and Ape- mantus in Timon , will be allowed to be master - pieces of ill - nature , and satirical snarling .. To these I might add , that incomparable character of Shylock the Jew , in The ...
... believe , Thersites in Troilus and Cressida , and Ape- mantus in Timon , will be allowed to be master - pieces of ill - nature , and satirical snarling .. To these I might add , that incomparable character of Shylock the Jew , in The ...
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... believe , might be , that he forbore doing it out of regard to queen Eliza- beth , since it could have been no very great respect to the memory of his mistress , to have exposed some cer- tain parts of her father's life upon the stage ...
... believe , might be , that he forbore doing it out of regard to queen Eliza- beth , since it could have been no very great respect to the memory of his mistress , to have exposed some cer- tain parts of her father's life upon the stage ...
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