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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... language . It is without controversy , that in his works we scarce find any traces of any thing that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not ...
... language . It is without controversy , that in his works we scarce find any traces of any thing that looks like an imitation of the ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not ...
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... language to deliver them . Upon his leaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family man- ner , he thought fit to marry while ...
... language to deliver them . Upon his leaving school , he seems to have given entirely into that way of living which his father proposed to him ; and in order to settle in the world after a family man- ner , he thought fit to marry while ...
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... language for that character . It is the same magic that raises the Fairies in A Mid- summer - Night's Dream , the Witches in Macbeth , and the Ghost in Hamlet , with thoughts and language so proper to the parts they sustain , and so ...
... language for that character . It is the same magic that raises the Fairies in A Mid- summer - Night's Dream , the Witches in Macbeth , and the Ghost in Hamlet , with thoughts and language so proper to the parts they sustain , and so ...
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... language which was never heard , upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this author is often so evi- dently determined by the incident which produces it , and is pursued with so much ease and ...
... language which was never heard , upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this author is often so evi- dently determined by the incident which produces it , and is pursued with so much ease and ...
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... language is depraved . But love is only one of many passions , and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life , it has little operation in the dramas of a poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only ...
... language is depraved . But love is only one of many passions , and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life , it has little operation in the dramas of a poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only ...
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