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Page xxxi
... ridiculous gloffes or compendious comments I shall here tranfcribe : fuch are , [ vol . 8. p . 303. ] where Iago calls Roderigo " a fnipe , " i . e . a diminutive woodcock . " which is , as if I should define a duck to be a diminutive ...
... ridiculous gloffes or compendious comments I shall here tranfcribe : fuch are , [ vol . 8. p . 303. ] where Iago calls Roderigo " a fnipe , " i . e . a diminutive woodcock . " which is , as if I should define a duck to be a diminutive ...
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... ridiculous to a critical and philofophical inquirer , who takes no other criterion and ftandard to judge from , than truth and nature . We want natural and rightly improved manners : for thefe our poets must go abroad ; and from the ...
... ridiculous to a critical and philofophical inquirer , who takes no other criterion and ftandard to judge from , than truth and nature . We want natural and rightly improved manners : for thefe our poets must go abroad ; and from the ...
Page 46
... ridiculous on the ftage ; for here the foldiers must be Standing fill , and not perfuing the flying Hector ; there one perfon only following and beckoning the reft to fland off . But all this is not difcernable in the Epopea . Now the ...
... ridiculous on the ftage ; for here the foldiers must be Standing fill , and not perfuing the flying Hector ; there one perfon only following and beckoning the reft to fland off . But all this is not difcernable in the Epopea . Now the ...
Page 83
... ridiculous . " But he redeemed his vices with his virtues . " There was ever more in him to be praised " than to be pardoned . " If Shakespeare was this honeft man , he muft have felt what the charms of honesty were , and 3 Seneca 4 ...
... ridiculous . " But he redeemed his vices with his virtues . " There was ever more in him to be praised " than to be pardoned . " If Shakespeare was this honeft man , he muft have felt what the charms of honesty were , and 3 Seneca 4 ...
Page 93
... ridiculous . An ugly woman , tricked out in a tawdry dress , renders herself more notori- oufly contemptible by her useless ornaments . Interdum fpeciofa locis , morataque reƐte Fabula , nullius veneris , fine pondere et arte , Valdius ...
... ridiculous . An ugly woman , tricked out in a tawdry dress , renders herself more notori- oufly contemptible by her useless ornaments . Interdum fpeciofa locis , morataque reƐte Fabula , nullius veneris , fine pondere et arte , Valdius ...
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