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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... most royal image , And mock your working in a second body . Question your royal thoughts , make the cafe yours , Be now the father , and propofe a fon ; Hear your own dignity fo much profan'd : See your most dreadful laws fo loofely ...
... most royal image , And mock your working in a second body . Question your royal thoughts , make the cafe yours , Be now the father , and propofe a fon ; Hear your own dignity fo much profan'd : See your most dreadful laws fo loofely ...
Page 32
... most 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 ...
... most 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 ...
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... most loathsome picture , which Longinus would surely have greatly difcommended , when we find him so severe on an author , for one line representing a naufeous image . See his Efay on the Sublime , fect.9 . Spencer's Faerie Queene , B ...
... most loathsome picture , which Longinus would surely have greatly difcommended , when we find him so severe on an author , for one line representing a naufeous image . See his Efay on the Sublime , fect.9 . Spencer's Faerie Queene , B ...
Page 51
... most others , they must yield the fuperiority to Shakespear ; Monfieur Racine in his cele . brated tragedy of Ejiber , fpeaks thus on the fubject , A prince encompass'd with a busy crowd Is ever call'd away by fome new object , The ...
... most others , they must yield the fuperiority to Shakespear ; Monfieur Racine in his cele . brated tragedy of Ejiber , fpeaks thus on the fubject , A prince encompass'd with a busy crowd Is ever call'd away by fome new object , The ...
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... most probably never meant ; if the read- ing be juft , the paffage is plain and easy , should we take fug- geftion in its vulgar acceptation : but it seems very exceptionable , nor can I be fatisfied with ty'd , efpecially , when I ...
... most probably never meant ; if the read- ing be juft , the paffage is plain and easy , should we take fug- geftion in its vulgar acceptation : but it seems very exceptionable , nor can I be fatisfied with ty'd , efpecially , when I ...
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