Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page vii
... 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 would pity , PREFACE . vii like the famous Virgilian lots ...
... 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 would pity , PREFACE . vii like the famous Virgilian lots ...
Page viii
... common justice to Shakespeare , to endeavour to check , if poffible , the daring folly of fuch a Phaeton : and a fair opportunity now offered , for my bookfeller told me he would reprint , if I thought proper , my ob- fervations on ...
... common justice to Shakespeare , to endeavour to check , if poffible , the daring folly of fuch a Phaeton : and a fair opportunity now offered , for my bookfeller told me he would reprint , if I thought proper , my ob- fervations on ...
Page xliv
... common people have as it were chri- ftened them by the addition of Jack - an - Ape . " Mr. W. 66 Mantygre speaks its original ! This poor critic Speaks his original in every note he writes , especially if left to bimfelf . Mantiger is ...
... common people have as it were chri- ftened them by the addition of Jack - an - Ape . " Mr. W. 66 Mantygre speaks its original ! This poor critic Speaks his original in every note he writes , especially if left to bimfelf . Mantiger is ...
Page xlviii
... common a book as Lloyd's dictionary might have inftructed him in this . " Huic Harpocrati Cupido " Veneris fil . parentis fuæ rofam dedit in munus , " ut fcilicet fi quid licentius di & tum , vel actum fit in " convivio , fciant tacenda ...
... common a book as Lloyd's dictionary might have inftructed him in this . " Huic Harpocrati Cupido " Veneris fil . parentis fuæ rofam dedit in munus , " ut fcilicet fi quid licentius di & tum , vel actum fit in " convivio , fciant tacenda ...
Page lv
... common fay- " ing of the Romish priests to their people , If you won't faft here , you must fast in fire . " Mr.T. 66 Let us now fee the ignorance , with which the poet is charged . " And duller shouldst thou be , than the fat weed ...
... common fay- " ing of the Romish priests to their people , If you won't faft here , you must fast in fire . " Mr.T. 66 Let us now fee the ignorance , with which the poet is charged . " And duller shouldst thou be , than the fat weed ...
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