Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... nature any foundation for the thing itself ; 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 ...
... nature any foundation for the thing itself ; 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 ...
Page vii
... 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 ...
... 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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... nature ; fo that by the fame analogy , when Milton calls Ceres VIRGIN OF PROSERPINA , ( ac- cording to our Critic , Παρθένος ἐκ Περσεφόνης ] Mil- ton must mean Ceres the Virgin who dwells in Proferpina , or , formerly refided there ...
... nature ; fo that by the fame analogy , when Milton calls Ceres VIRGIN OF PROSERPINA , ( ac- cording to our Critic , Παρθένος ἐκ Περσεφόνης ] Mil- ton must mean Ceres the Virgin who dwells in Proferpina , or , formerly refided there ...
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... , now funk very low in popular esteem , ( c 66 by the attempts of fome who would needs " exercise it without either natural or acquired 1 Mr. W.'s preface . p . xiv . " talents : " " talents : " or whether , To deter the XXX PREFACE .
... , now funk very low in popular esteem , ( c 66 by the attempts of fome who would needs " exercise it without either natural or acquired 1 Mr. W.'s preface . p . xiv . " talents : " " talents : " or whether , To deter the XXX PREFACE .
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... nature " May catch a wrench - would all were well - ' tis pity- 66 " And fo intending other ferious malters , 66 After diftateful looks , and these hard FRACTIONS , " With certain half - caps , and cold - moving nods , " They froze me ...
... nature " May catch a wrench - would all were well - ' tis pity- 66 " And fo intending other ferious malters , 66 After diftateful looks , and these hard FRACTIONS , " With certain half - caps , and cold - moving nods , " They froze me ...
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