Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... whose reputation in learning is fo deservedly established : but there was a good piece of advice , ( which I cannot so easily pass over , because of universal use to critics , ) offered him , when first he made his design known of ...
... whose reputation in learning is fo deservedly established : but there was a good piece of advice , ( which I cannot so easily pass over , because of universal use to critics , ) offered him , when first he made his design known of ...
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... whose inclinations lead them thro ' fuch untrodden paths . - But this perhaps will not appear so surprising , when ' tis confidered , that the more liberal sciences and humane letters , are not the natural growth of thefe Gothic and ...
... whose inclinations lead them thro ' fuch untrodden paths . - But this perhaps will not appear so surprising , when ' tis confidered , that the more liberal sciences and humane letters , are not the natural growth of thefe Gothic and ...
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... whose temper natu- rally led him to that fatal paffion . Jealousy often arifes from an opinion of our own defects The " No , if I ever think of another lover , may- fifter , a fine lady , knew what advice fhe would follow , viz , what ...
... whose temper natu- rally led him to that fatal paffion . Jealousy often arifes from an opinion of our own defects The " No , if I ever think of another lover , may- fifter , a fine lady , knew what advice fhe would follow , viz , what ...
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... whose manners were diametrically oppofite . The old man refolves to try a contrary behaviour , and takes himself roundly to task , Ego ille agreftis , faevus , triftis , parcus , truculen- tus , tenax . 16 But how great is the poet's ...
... whose manners were diametrically oppofite . The old man refolves to try a contrary behaviour , and takes himself roundly to task , Ego ille agreftis , faevus , triftis , parcus , truculen- tus , tenax . 16 But how great is the poet's ...
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... whose faces were daubed with the lees of wine . Horace does not say the tragic mufe had no existence , in any shape whatever , before Thefpis ; but only that he invented a new kind , unknown before : for he first made his sto- ries ...
... whose faces were daubed with the lees of wine . Horace does not say the tragic mufe had no existence , in any shape whatever , before Thefpis ; but only that he invented a new kind , unknown before : for he first made his sto- ries ...
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