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... or whether the whole does not depend on meer whim , caprice , or fafbion ? Befide , I began to be apprehensive for the fate of fome of my most favourite English authors . We have few books in our language that merit a A 3 We THE ...
... or whether the whole does not depend on meer whim , caprice , or fafbion ? Befide , I began to be apprehensive for the fate of fome of my most favourite English authors . We have few books in our language that merit a A 3 We THE ...
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... 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, appeared full in my ...
... 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, appeared full in my ...
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John Upton. fuch as even the most inveterate enemy would pity , did not an unusual infolence deftroy every degree of it ; then I thought it high time , and but common justice to Shakespeare , to endeavour to check , if poffible , the ...
John Upton. fuch as even the most inveterate enemy would pity , did not an unusual infolence deftroy every degree of it ; then I thought it high time , and but common justice to Shakespeare , to endeavour to check , if poffible , the ...
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... most difficult word of all , aldir , poor critic - like , be has entirely omitted : 3dly , the most eafy word of all , lievest , he knows little or nothing of . Now aldir - lieveft fignifies nothing else but deareft of all : In ...
... most difficult word of all , aldir , poor critic - like , be has entirely omitted : 3dly , the most eafy word of all , lievest , he knows little or nothing of . Now aldir - lieveft fignifies nothing else but deareft of all : In ...
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... most admir'd diforder . " Macb . Can fuch things be , " And OVERCOME us , like a fummer's cloud , " Without our special wonder ? " Overcome us . i . e . come over us , overcast us . So Chaucer in the Lamentation of Marie Magd . [ p ...
... most admir'd diforder . " Macb . Can fuch things be , " And OVERCOME us , like a fummer's cloud , " Without our special wonder ? " Overcome us . i . e . come over us , overcast us . So Chaucer in the Lamentation of Marie Magd . [ p ...
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