Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page vii
... Some errors are owing to haft and carelesness , and others to the common infirmity of human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increafing upon me , A 4 fuck fuch as even the most inveterate enemy ...
... Some errors are owing to haft and carelesness , and others to the common infirmity of human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increafing upon me , A 4 fuck fuch as even the most inveterate enemy ...
Page xvii
... some paffages of Chaucer's Troilus and Crefeide in a Flay of the fame name by our Tragedian ; and fe- veral imitations there are likewife , very elegantly interfperfed , in other plays , which fome time or other may be pointed out : at ...
... some paffages of Chaucer's Troilus and Crefeide in a Flay of the fame name by our Tragedian ; and fe- veral imitations there are likewife , very elegantly interfperfed , in other plays , which fome time or other may be pointed out : at ...
Page xxxi
... Some few , among the many , of thefe ridiculous gloffes or compendious comments I shall here tranfcribe : fuch are , [ vol . 8. p . 303. ] where Iago calls Roderigo " a fnipe , " i . e . a diminutive woodcock . " which is , as if I ...
... Some few , among the many , of thefe ridiculous gloffes or compendious comments I shall here tranfcribe : fuch are , [ vol . 8. p . 303. ] where Iago calls Roderigo " a fnipe , " i . e . a diminutive woodcock . " which is , as if I ...
Page xlv
... some plan , when he " enters upon an author deferving a stricter in- " quiry : if he would confider that originals have " a manner always peculiar to themselves ; and not « only a manner , but a language : if he would com- pare one ...
... some plan , when he " enters upon an author deferving a stricter in- " quiry : if he would confider that originals have " a manner always peculiar to themselves ; and not « only a manner , but a language : if he would com- pare one ...
Page lxii
... some stop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of cri- " ticifm . " And if this plan , bere propofed , was followed , " the world might expect a much better , at least a lefs altered edition from Shakespeare's έσ own words ...
... some stop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of cri- " ticifm . " And if this plan , bere propofed , was followed , " the world might expect a much better , at least a lefs altered edition from Shakespeare's έσ own words ...
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