Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... Vice , or modern Harlequin , belabours the poor Devil of his own raifing . Who is there but will allow greater liberty for altering authors , who wrote before the invention of printing , than fince ? Blunders upon blunders of ...
... Vice , or modern Harlequin , belabours the poor Devil of his own raifing . Who is there but will allow greater liberty for altering authors , who wrote before the invention of printing , than fince ? Blunders upon blunders of ...
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... vice . " Those lines , that I have placed between two hooks , ought certainly to have been omitted , as they carry with them reflections falfe in every parti- cular . Or fhall we play the critic , and suppose them fome marginal ...
... vice . " Those lines , that I have placed between two hooks , ought certainly to have been omitted , as they carry with them reflections falfe in every parti- cular . Or fhall we play the critic , and suppose them fome marginal ...
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... vice prevailing ; ' till reafon , as is ufual , gives way to inclination . And how beautifully , from fuch a wavering character , does the poet let you into the know- ledge of the fecret fprings and motives of hu- man actions ? In the ...
... vice prevailing ; ' till reafon , as is ufual , gives way to inclination . And how beautifully , from fuch a wavering character , does the poet let you into the know- ledge of the fecret fprings and motives of hu- man actions ? In the ...
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... vice alternately prevailing ; it being as difficult to find a person thoroughly vitious , as thoroughly virtuous . Thus Philo- fophers , who make human nature their study , speak of it ; and thus the greatest of all phi- lofophers ...
... vice alternately prevailing ; it being as difficult to find a person thoroughly vitious , as thoroughly virtuous . Thus Philo- fophers , who make human nature their study , speak of it ; and thus the greatest of all phi- lofophers ...
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... vice , [ for fome vices raise indignation , horror , or pity , which are tragic paffions ] but only what has a ridiculous fhare of what is base : for the ridiculous is a fort of defect and baseness , neither causing pain nor deftruction ...
... vice , [ for fome vices raise indignation , horror , or pity , which are tragic paffions ] but only what has a ridiculous fhare of what is base : for the ridiculous is a fort of defect and baseness , neither causing pain nor deftruction ...
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