Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page v
... ancient dramatic poet , as to put fome ftop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of criticism . Perhaps all attempts , to reduce fo irregular an art to any regular method , might deferve a place among the many ...
... ancient dramatic poet , as to put fome ftop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of criticism . Perhaps all attempts , to reduce fo irregular an art to any regular method , might deferve a place among the many ...
Page xvi
... ancient Greece ; yet as an English author is the present subject of criticism , to be knowing in the English language and English authors may be deemed fufficient . — There is an English author , which was much studied by Shakespeare ...
... ancient Greece ; yet as an English author is the present subject of criticism , to be knowing in the English language and English authors may be deemed fufficient . — There is an English author , which was much studied by Shakespeare ...
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... ancient skill beguiles me ; but in the boldness of my cunning , I will lay myself in bazard . " Lay myself in hazard . ] Metaphor from chefs " play . " Mr. W. Shakespeare himself would have better instructed our commentator , bad he ...
... ancient skill beguiles me ; but in the boldness of my cunning , I will lay myself in bazard . " Lay myself in hazard . ] Metaphor from chefs " play . " Mr. W. Shakespeare himself would have better instructed our commentator , bad he ...
Page xlv
... what allowances may " be given for obfolete modes of Speech , but what a “ venerable caft this alone often gives a writer . I 1 Mr. W.'s preface , p . xiii . 66 ❝ omit ..omit the previous knowledge in ancient cu- " stoms and PREFACE . xlv.
... what allowances may " be given for obfolete modes of Speech , but what a “ venerable caft this alone often gives a writer . I 1 Mr. W.'s preface , p . xiii . 66 ❝ omit ..omit the previous knowledge in ancient cu- " stoms and PREFACE . xlv.
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John Upton ..omit the previous knowledge in ancient cu- " stoms and manners , in grammar and conftru- ❝ction ; the knowledge of these is presupposed ; " to be caught tripping here is an ominous " ftumble at the very threshold and ...
John Upton ..omit the previous knowledge in ancient cu- " stoms and manners , in grammar and conftru- ❝ction ; the knowledge of these is presupposed ; " to be caught tripping here is an ominous " ftumble at the very threshold and ...
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