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... wanton one : " which fometimes fhew a lion , a caftle or a pro- montory ? The thought is fine , and in character . " overcome IS USED FOR Deceive . " Mr. W. 66 IN King Lear , A & III . " Edg b 4 In PREFACE . xxiii <c ...
... wanton one : " which fometimes fhew a lion , a caftle or a pro- montory ? The thought is fine , and in character . " overcome IS USED FOR Deceive . " Mr. W. 66 IN King Lear , A & III . " Edg b 4 In PREFACE . xxiii <c ...
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... character fays Diana in All's Well that ends Well , Act IV . " Since Frenchmen are so braid , " Marry that will , I'll live and die a maid . ” Could now any one imagine , that thefe paffages fhould not pass unmolested ? Yet Mr. Theobald ...
... character fays Diana in All's Well that ends Well , Act IV . " Since Frenchmen are so braid , " Marry that will , I'll live and die a maid . ” Could now any one imagine , that thefe paffages fhould not pass unmolested ? Yet Mr. Theobald ...
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... character ? An unreasonable thing itself , if spoken by an unreasona- ble perfon , bence becomes poetically reasonable.- But as the women above have , for the fake of one , expressed their anger against all men ; fo the poets bave put a ...
... character ? An unreasonable thing itself , if spoken by an unreasona- ble perfon , bence becomes poetically reasonable.- But as the women above have , for the fake of one , expressed their anger against all men ; fo the poets bave put a ...
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... characters ; he pleases his au- " dience , and often gains their ear , without a fingle bribe from luxury or vice . " Those lines , that I have placed between two hooks , ought certainly to have been omitted , as they carry with them ...
... characters ; he pleases his au- " dience , and often gains their ear , without a fingle bribe from luxury or vice . " Those lines , that I have placed between two hooks , ought certainly to have been omitted , as they carry with them ...
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... characters , but in the ill choice of his fubject ; 10 for 10 Αὐτῆς δὲ τῆς ποιητικής διττή η αμαλία . Η μὲν γὰρ καθ ' αὐτὴν , ἡ δὲ κατὰ συμβέβηκός . Ἡ μὲν γὰς πεολείο μιμή caclar for he should have rejected what was incapable of ...
... characters , but in the ill choice of his fubject ; 10 for 10 Αὐτῆς δὲ τῆς ποιητικής διττή η αμαλία . Η μὲν γὰρ καθ ' αὐτὴν , ἡ δὲ κατὰ συμβέβηκός . Ἡ μὲν γὰς πεολείο μιμή caclar for he should have rejected what was incapable of ...
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