Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page vi
... seems , this was the gentleman , who formerly affifted Mr. Theobald in his edition of Shakespeare ; and to write of Shakespeare without praifing this coadjutor , was a crime unpardonable . -Hinc illæ lacrimæ . But if praise comes not ...
... seems , this was the gentleman , who formerly affifted Mr. Theobald in his edition of Shakespeare ; and to write of Shakespeare without praifing this coadjutor , was a crime unpardonable . -Hinc illæ lacrimæ . But if praise comes not ...
Page xi
... seems to have " bad bis eye on this paffage , amongst others , " where he talks fo much of the impropriety and " barbarity in the style of this play . But it is an elegant Grecifm . As double , fignifies as large , " as extensive , for ...
... seems to have " bad bis eye on this paffage , amongst others , " where he talks fo much of the impropriety and " barbarity in the style of this play . But it is an elegant Grecifm . As double , fignifies as large , " as extensive , for ...
Page 13
... repeated fall not under this cen- fure ; as , Et premere , et láxas fciret dare jussus habénas . " it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers , " it Sect . 3 . 13 on SHAKESPEARE . "and all good oratory. This neglect then of ...
... repeated fall not under this cen- fure ; as , Et premere , et láxas fciret dare jussus habénas . " it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers , " it Sect . 3 . 13 on SHAKESPEARE . "and all good oratory. This neglect then of ...
Page 14
John Upton. " it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers , " that it rather is to be esteemed an example set , " the first in English , of ancient liberty , reco- " vered to heroic poem from the troublesome " and modern bondage of riming ...
John Upton. " it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers , " that it rather is to be esteemed an example set , " the first in English , of ancient liberty , reco- " vered to heroic poem from the troublesome " and modern bondage of riming ...
Page 26
... seem ever to have given themselves the trouble of confi- dering , whether or no his ftory does not hang together , and the incidents follow each other naturally and in order ; in short whether or no he has not a beginning , middle and ...
... seem ever to have given themselves the trouble of confi- dering , whether or no his ftory does not hang together , and the incidents follow each other naturally and in order ; in short whether or no he has not a beginning , middle and ...
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