Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page v
... kind of affairs , I received a letter from my boneft bookfeller in Town , informing me , that a new edition of Shakespeare was just published by Mr. Warburton , who had taken occafion , fome where or other in that work of bis , to ...
... kind of affairs , I received a letter from my boneft bookfeller in Town , informing me , that a new edition of Shakespeare was just published by Mr. Warburton , who had taken occafion , fome where or other in that work of bis , to ...
Page vi
... kind of fatality , has forgot his province , and the author himself has been arbitrarily altered , and reduced to fuch a fancied plan of perfection , as the corrector , within him- felf , has thought proper to establish . But of this I ...
... kind of fatality , has forgot his province , and the author himself has been arbitrarily altered , and reduced to fuch a fancied plan of perfection , as the corrector , within him- felf , has thought proper to establish . But of this I ...
Page vii
... kind I never should have made matter for triumph . Some errors are owing to baft and carelefness , and others to the common infirmity of human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increasing upon me ...
... kind I never should have made matter for triumph . Some errors are owing to baft and carelefness , and others to the common infirmity of human nature . But when I red on farther , and found errors of all kinds , ftill increasing upon me ...
Page viii
... kind . that the variety However if I can out of these furnish for my learned reader any entertainment , while at the fame time I am doing but common justice to our poet , I shall not think my pains ill bestowed . — One obfervation , I ...
... kind . that the variety However if I can out of these furnish for my learned reader any entertainment , while at the fame time I am doing but common justice to our poet , I shall not think my pains ill bestowed . — One obfervation , I ...
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... kind , among many others , I think the following offers itself , where Iago tells Othello that Brabantio , father of Def demona , was a man of power and authority , 1 Concerning the meaning of this word fee Dr. Hickes , in Grammat ...
... kind , among many others , I think the following offers itself , where Iago tells Othello that Brabantio , father of Def demona , was a man of power and authority , 1 Concerning the meaning of this word fee Dr. Hickes , in Grammat ...
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