Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page v
... mention me with fome fort of abuse for those Critical Obfervations I had fometime before written , as well to do juftice to this our ancient dramatic poet , as to put fome ftop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of ...
... mention me with fome fort of abuse for those Critical Obfervations I had fometime before written , as well to do juftice to this our ancient dramatic poet , as to put fome ftop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of ...
Page liv
... mentions , Ergo exercentur poenis , veterumque malorum Supplicia expendunt , aliae panduntur inanis Sufpenfae ad ventos : aliis fub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur fcelus , aut EXURITUR IGNI . Quifque fuos patimur Manis : exinde per ...
... mentions , Ergo exercentur poenis , veterumque malorum Supplicia expendunt , aliae panduntur inanis Sufpenfae ad ventos : aliis fub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur fcelus , aut EXURITUR IGNI . Quifque fuos patimur Manis : exinde per ...
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... mention fome few of the like kind of errors in other books ; nor does indeed this Stand in need of any apology . The corrections pro- pofed on feveral pallages of the New Testament are all omitted in this fecond edition ; because , with ...
... mention fome few of the like kind of errors in other books ; nor does indeed this Stand in need of any apology . The corrections pro- pofed on feveral pallages of the New Testament are all omitted in this fecond edition ; because , with ...
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John Upton. is one part of their cunning , that I cannot help here mentioning , which is , their intruding their own gueffes and reveries into the context , which , firft meeting the reader's eye , naturally prepoffefs his judgment ...
John Upton. is one part of their cunning , that I cannot help here mentioning , which is , their intruding their own gueffes and reveries into the context , which , firft meeting the reader's eye , naturally prepoffefs his judgment ...
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... mention- ing Shakespeare's name ; they don't seem ever to have given themselves the trouble of confi- dering , whether or no his ftory does not hang together , and the incidents follow each other naturally and in order ; in short ...
... mention- ing Shakespeare's name ; they don't seem ever to have given themselves the trouble of confi- dering , whether or no his ftory does not hang together , and the incidents follow each other naturally and in order ; in short ...
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