Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page vi
... hands of meer correttors of printing preffes , and esteemed worthy of fome more learned commentator's care and revifal ; the commentator , by I know not what kind of fatality , bas forgot his province , and the author himself bas been ...
... hands of meer correttors of printing preffes , and esteemed worthy of fome more learned commentator's care and revifal ; the commentator , by I know not what kind of fatality , bas forgot his province , and the author himself bas been ...
Page xxviii
... hand again : whom I find misunderstood in a note on a paffage in All's Well that ends Well , A & t I. " In his bright radiance and collateral light Muft I be comforted , not in his fphere . " Collateral for reflected . i . e . In the ...
... hand again : whom I find misunderstood in a note on a paffage in All's Well that ends Well , A & t I. " In his bright radiance and collateral light Muft I be comforted , not in his fphere . " Collateral for reflected . i . e . In the ...
Page xxix
... hand of glory : [ not reflected as our Critic thinks ; for it might just as well fignify any thing else , that he is pleased to make it . ] And the meaning of this place is exactly the fame as in B. VI , 679 . " Whence to his fon , " Th ...
... hand of glory : [ not reflected as our Critic thinks ; for it might just as well fignify any thing else , that he is pleased to make it . ] And the meaning of this place is exactly the fame as in B. VI , 679 . " Whence to his fon , " Th ...
Page 8
... better , takes him in hand , and introduces him in this modern dress to good company . Whatever Whatever be the opinion of the vulgar , whe- ther 8 Book I Critical Obfervations they make up a poet of shreds and patches; ...
... better , takes him in hand , and introduces him in this modern dress to good company . Whatever Whatever be the opinion of the vulgar , whe- ther 8 Book I Critical Obfervations they make up a poet of shreds and patches; ...
Page 15
... hands from the con text ; be cautious how you pluck up what you may think excrefcencies , left with these you tear in pieces the poet himself . Jam parce fepulto , Parce pias fcelerare manus . SECT . IV . T feems no wonder , that the ...
... hands from the con text ; be cautious how you pluck up what you may think excrefcencies , left with these you tear in pieces the poet himself . Jam parce fepulto , Parce pias fcelerare manus . SECT . IV . T feems no wonder , that the ...
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