Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... proper to establish . But of this I have fully spoken ; and methinks what I have spoken deferves a ferious notice . ' Twas therefore a matter of furprize , at first , when I received my bookfeller's kind information : but upon a fecond ...
... proper to establish . But of this I have fully spoken ; and methinks what I have spoken deferves a ferious notice . ' Twas therefore a matter of furprize , at first , when I received my bookfeller's kind information : but upon a fecond ...
Page viii
... proper , my ob- fervations on Shakespeare , with fuch additions and alterations , as I should make . But the reader is mistaken if he thinks that ei- ther in this preface , or in the following work the bundredth part of our critics ...
... proper , my ob- fervations on Shakespeare , with fuch additions and alterations , as I should make . But the reader is mistaken if he thinks that ei- ther in this preface , or in the following work the bundredth part of our critics ...
Page xli
... proper and favo- rable natures , which was to bring forth food for man . [ This place too is altered , and natures is changed into nurtures . ] # I am led infenfibly , from my defign of raising a little innocent mirth in my reader , by ...
... proper and favo- rable natures , which was to bring forth food for man . [ This place too is altered , and natures is changed into nurtures . ] # I am led infenfibly , from my defign of raising a little innocent mirth in my reader , by ...
Page lxi
... proper , by themselves . The reader may perceive that by little and little I rife upon him , ' till I de- mand the giving up , as fpurious , no less than three plays , which are printed among Shakespeare's genuine works . Confidering ...
... proper , by themselves . The reader may perceive that by little and little I rife upon him , ' till I de- mand the giving up , as fpurious , no less than three plays , which are printed among Shakespeare's genuine works . Confidering ...
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... proper tragic drefs , and by intra- ducing in these mock - tragedies , not only gal- lantry to women , but an endeavour to raife a ferious distress from the disappointment of lovers ; not confidering that the paffion of love , which one ...
... proper tragic drefs , and by intra- ducing in these mock - tragedies , not only gal- lantry to women , but an endeavour to raife a ferious distress from the disappointment of lovers ; not confidering that the paffion of love , which one ...
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