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... instance , in a note on a paffage in Macbeth , A & t II . " Thou feeft , the heav'ns as troubled with man's ‹‹ act , " Threaten this bloody ftage . 1 Wr . W.'s preface , p . xvi . d 2 " Threaten 66 " ter . " Threaten this bloody ftage ...
... instance , in a note on a paffage in Macbeth , A & t II . " Thou feeft , the heav'ns as troubled with man's ‹‹ act , " Threaten this bloody ftage . 1 Wr . W.'s preface , p . xvi . d 2 " Threaten 66 " ter . " Threaten this bloody ftage ...
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... instance , that can be cited , to coun- tenance that famous paffage in Plato's ban- quet , where the philosopher makes a tragic and a comic poet both allow , against their inclina- tions , that he who according to the best rules of art ...
... instance , that can be cited , to coun- tenance that famous paffage in Plato's ban- quet , where the philosopher makes a tragic and a comic poet both allow , against their inclina- tions , that he who according to the best rules of art ...
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... instances of painters , then of poets . Homer , he fays , has made men better , other poets worse , others again as they are . In this very thing lies the difference between tragedy and comedy ; for comedy endeavours to reprefent men ...
... instances of painters , then of poets . Homer , he fays , has made men better , other poets worse , others again as they are . In this very thing lies the difference between tragedy and comedy ; for comedy endeavours to reprefent men ...
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... instance or two of this fort . Hamlet is speak- ing to his father's ghost , Ob ! anfwer me , Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell 5 Why thy canoniz'd bones , bearfed in death , Have burst their cearments ? & c . 5 Such expreffions ...
... instance or two of this fort . Hamlet is speak- ing to his father's ghost , Ob ! anfwer me , Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell 5 Why thy canoniz'd bones , bearfed in death , Have burst their cearments ? & c . 5 Such expreffions ...
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... Refolution : The poet gave it , " STAID Refolution and fecure . Or . STERN . " Bentley . These 159 These few instances , among many others that may 158 Book II . Critical Obfervations "Benedick. This can be no trick, the ...
... Refolution : The poet gave it , " STAID Refolution and fecure . Or . STERN . " Bentley . These 159 These few instances , among many others that may 158 Book II . Critical Obfervations "Benedick. This can be no trick, the ...
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A& III acatalectic Aeschylus againſt allufion ancient Antony and Cleopatra becauſe beſt Brutus called cauſe character Cicero comedy Coriolanus criticiſm critics Cymbeline edition Engliſh Euripides expreffion fame fays feems fenfe fhall fhew fignifies firſt fome foul fpeaking fubject fuch Greek Hamlet hath Hence Henry himſelf Homer honour Horace inftances itſelf Johnſon Julius Caefar juſt king King Lear Latin likewife Lycaonia Macbeth manners Meaſure mention'd Milton moft moſt muſt obfervations Othello Ovid paffage paffions perfon Plato Plautus play pleaſe Plutarch poet preſent raiſe reader reaſon ſay ſcene ſee ſeems Shakeſpeare ſhall ſhould ſome Sophocles ſpeaking Spencer ſtage ſtory thee thefe Theobald Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe thou tranflation twas ufes uſed verfe verſes Virgil whoſe word write γὰρ δὲ εἰ ἐκ ἐν καὶ μὲν πρὸς τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς