Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page vi
... 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 arbitrarily altered , and reduced to fuch a fancied plan of perfection , as the ...
... 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 arbitrarily altered , and reduced to fuch a fancied plan of perfection , as the ...
Page viii
... learned reader any entertainment , while at the fame time I am doing but common justice to our poet , I shall not think my pains ill bestowed . - One obfervation , I now plainly perceive , will naturally lead on another , fo that ' tis ...
... learned reader any entertainment , while at the fame time I am doing but common justice to our poet , I shall not think my pains ill bestowed . - One obfervation , I now plainly perceive , will naturally lead on another , fo that ' tis ...
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... learned citation of the like kind , among many others , I think the foliowing offers itself , where Iago tells Othello that Brabantio , father of Def demona , was a man of power and authority , 1 Concerning the meaning of this word fee ...
... learned citation of the like kind , among many others , I think the foliowing offers itself , where Iago tells Othello that Brabantio , father of Def demona , was a man of power and authority , 1 Concerning the meaning of this word fee ...
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... learned reader , yet I think I can give fome account of it . Daniel Heinfius wrote fome cursory notes on Theocritus , in which these words , ΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΝ ΕΚ ΘΑΛΑΜΟΥ , be renders virginem intactam . Becaufe , it feems , Θύρσις ἐξ Αἴτνας wας ...
... learned reader , yet I think I can give fome account of it . Daniel Heinfius wrote fome cursory notes on Theocritus , in which these words , ΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΝ ΕΚ ΘΑΛΑΜΟΥ , be renders virginem intactam . Becaufe , it feems , Θύρσις ἐξ Αἴτνας wας ...
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... learned reader excuse my bringing it from the Greek Qixos , charus ; per metathefin ? However from lief , comes leicfer , lever , leveft . I had as lief , is now a known ex- preffion . With respect to the other word , Aldir , Althir ...
... learned reader excuse my bringing it from the Greek Qixos , charus ; per metathefin ? However from lief , comes leicfer , lever , leveft . I had as lief , is now a known ex- preffion . With respect to the other word , Aldir , Althir ...
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