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Page vi
... write of Shakespeare without praifing this coadjutor , was a crime unpardonable . -Hinc illæ lacrimæ . But if praise comes not fairly in my way , I will never go out of my way either to give it , or to gain it ; at least I will never ...
... write of Shakespeare without praifing this coadjutor , was a crime unpardonable . -Hinc illæ lacrimæ . But if praise comes not fairly in my way , I will never go out of my way either to give it , or to gain it ; at least I will never ...
Page xvi
... writes it ] a regal mantle , a robe of triumph ? —I am weary in refuting fuch trafb.Let the reader now turn to the preface and notes of this late - taught critic , and reflect a little on the bluftering language and Pistol - diction ...
... writes it ] a regal mantle , a robe of triumph ? —I am weary in refuting fuch trafb.Let the reader now turn to the preface and notes of this late - taught critic , and reflect a little on the bluftering language and Pistol - diction ...
Page xxxi
... writer ; yet there is not one learned reader or writer , I dare fay , in the whole republic of letters , but looks on our editor as wan- tonly trifling with an art he is a stranger to.— Some few , among the many , of thefe ridiculous ...
... writer ; yet there is not one learned reader or writer , I dare fay , in the whole republic of letters , but looks on our editor as wan- tonly trifling with an art he is a stranger to.— Some few , among the many , of thefe ridiculous ...
Page xliii
... writing , ( I compliment him when I say so . ) One of them is in the Tempest , Act II . where Tri- culo finding the monster Caliban fays , " were I in " England now , as once I was , and had but this fifh painted , not an holiday - fool ...
... writing , ( I compliment him when I say so . ) One of them is in the Tempest , Act II . where Tri- culo finding the monster Caliban fays , " were I in " England now , as once I was , and had but this fifh painted , not an holiday - fool ...
Page xliv
... writes , especially if left to bimfelf . Mantiger is the English pronun- ciation of Mantichora , Malixugas . But not to be grave - The ather is on a passage in King Lear , Act I. 66 66 Regan . That I profefs Myself an enemy to all other ...
... writes , especially if left to bimfelf . Mantiger is the English pronun- ciation of Mantichora , Malixugas . But not to be grave - The ather is on a passage in King Lear , Act I. 66 66 Regan . That I profefs Myself an enemy to all other ...
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