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Page v
... written , as well to do juftice to this our ancient dramatic poet , as to put fome ftop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of criticism . Perhaps all attempts , to reduce fo irregular an art to any regular method , might ...
... written , as well to do juftice to this our ancient dramatic poet , as to put fome ftop , if poffible , to the vague and licentious fpirit of criticism . Perhaps all attempts , to reduce fo irregular an art to any regular method , might ...
Page xlii
... written in your brow , 66 Provost , bonefty and conftancy ; If I read it not " truly , my ancient skill beguiles me ; but in the boldness of my cunning , I will lay myself in bazard . " Lay myself in hazard . ] Metaphor from chefs ...
... written in your brow , 66 Provost , bonefty and conftancy ; If I read it not " truly , my ancient skill beguiles me ; but in the boldness of my cunning , I will lay myself in bazard . " Lay myself in hazard . ] Metaphor from chefs ...
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 lx
... written in this first book , whilft it does justice to Shakespeare , may at the fame time be looked on as no bad comment on Äri- Stotle . Having found our poet worthy of criticism in a larger and more extenfive view : ' lis worth our ...
... written in this first book , whilft it does justice to Shakespeare , may at the fame time be looked on as no bad comment on Äri- Stotle . Having found our poet worthy of criticism in a larger and more extenfive view : ' lis worth our ...
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... writing ; ] yet by the juftnefs of his moral , the aptness of many of " his descriptions , and the plain and natural ... written by the learned Antony Afhley Cooper ; and from hence by the blundering transcriber foifted into the context ...
... writing ; ] yet by the juftnefs of his moral , the aptness of many of " his descriptions , and the plain and natural ... written by the learned Antony Afhley Cooper ; and from hence by the blundering transcriber foifted into the context ...
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