Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... instance , in a note on a paffage in Macbeth , Act II . " Thou feeft , the heav'ns as troubled with man's " act , " Threaten this bloody ftage . I Wr . W.'s preface , p . xvi . d 2 " Threaten 66 " Threaten this bloody ftage : - ] One ...
... instance , in a note on a paffage in Macbeth , Act II . " Thou feeft , the heav'ns as troubled with man's " act , " Threaten this bloody ftage . I Wr . W.'s preface , p . xvi . d 2 " Threaten 66 " Threaten this bloody ftage : - ] One ...
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... instances of this kind is in the Oreftes of Euripides . 15 If the reader has a mind to compare Shakespeare with the ancients , I would refer him to Ovid's Circe : and Medaea , confider it without admiring our poet's improve- ment of ...
... instances of this kind is in the Oreftes of Euripides . 15 If the reader has a mind to compare Shakespeare with the ancients , I would refer him to Ovid's Circe : and Medaea , confider it without admiring our poet's improve- ment of ...
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... instance , that can be cited , to coun- tenance that famous paffage in Plato's ban- quet , where the philofopher makes a tragic and a comic poet both allow , against their inclina- . tions , that he who according to the best rules of ...
... instance , that can be cited , to coun- tenance that famous paffage in Plato's ban- quet , where the philofopher makes a tragic and a comic poet both allow , against their inclina- . tions , that he who according to the best rules of ...
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... instances , the reader may fee the propriety of the change in Theocritus of HAIZIN into ΠΑΣΙΝ . 18 Plato in Gorg . p . 505. edit . Steph . Lévnlar , . γένηται , ο προς δύο ἄνδρες ἔλεῖον , εἷς 114 Book I. Critical Obfervations.
... instances , the reader may fee the propriety of the change in Theocritus of HAIZIN into ΠΑΣΙΝ . 18 Plato in Gorg . p . 505. edit . Steph . Lévnlar , . γένηται , ο προς δύο ἄνδρες ἔλεῖον , εἷς 114 Book I. Critical Obfervations.
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... instances , for a hint of this nature is fufficient . ; Xenophon in his treatise of the Athenian re- public takes notice of the exceffive fcurrilities of the old comedians . But the emperor Marcus Antoninus speaks more favourable of ...
... instances , for a hint of this nature is fufficient . ; Xenophon in his treatise of the Athenian re- public takes notice of the exceffive fcurrilities of the old comedians . But the emperor Marcus Antoninus speaks more favourable of ...
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