The Beauties of Shakespear: Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes and Similar Passages from Ancient and Modern Authors, Volume 2T. Waller, 1752 |
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Page 32
... beautiful paffage is compar- ing the laborious flave to the lacquey or footman of Phoebus : " He never beholds night , fays the poet , but like a lacquey obliged ever to attend and follow his mafter , fweats from rife to fet , in the ...
... beautiful paffage is compar- ing the laborious flave to the lacquey or footman of Phoebus : " He never beholds night , fays the poet , but like a lacquey obliged ever to attend and follow his mafter , fweats from rife to fet , in the ...
Page 49
... beautiful , the au- thor perfonifies the prime of youth , and defcribes him as an alle- gorical perfon , trimm'd like a yonker , which with us fignifies a brifk , lively young man ; but more properly perhaps from its original , a ...
... beautiful , the au- thor perfonifies the prime of youth , and defcribes him as an alle- gorical perfon , trimm'd like a yonker , which with us fignifies a brifk , lively young man ; but more properly perhaps from its original , a ...
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... beautiful ; the reader may remember that Shakespear uses it in the pretty song at the end of Love's Labour Loft . And Dick the fhepherd blows his nail . * O God , & c . ] There is fomething very pleafing and natural in this paffage ; it ...
... beautiful ; the reader may remember that Shakespear uses it in the pretty song at the end of Love's Labour Loft . And Dick the fhepherd blows his nail . * O God , & c . ] There is fomething very pleafing and natural in this paffage ; it ...
Page 78
... beautiful Child . ( a ) If thou , that bid'ft me be content , wert grim Ugly , and fland'rous to thy mother's womb , What , & c . ] So Seneca in his Oedipus fays , Effari dubitas ? eur genas mutat color ? Quid verba quæris ? And in his ...
... beautiful Child . ( a ) If thou , that bid'ft me be content , wert grim Ugly , and fland'rous to thy mother's womb , What , & c . ] So Seneca in his Oedipus fays , Effari dubitas ? eur genas mutat color ? Quid verba quæris ? And in his ...
Page 80
... beautiful break , and finely imagin'd . The king , in Beaumont and Fletcher's King and no King , is like troubled and fearful to disclose his intentions . fays of him , -He has followed me Thro ' twenty rooms , and ever when I ftay To ...
... beautiful break , and finely imagin'd . The king , in Beaumont and Fletcher's King and no King , is like troubled and fearful to disclose his intentions . fays of him , -He has followed me Thro ' twenty rooms , and ever when I ftay To ...
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