Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... instance of Bentley's critical skill , I should not forget that place in the Plutus of Aristophanes , ✯ . 1010 . which puzzled the Grecian critics , being an old inveterate evil , juft gloffed over , ' till Bentley probed it to the ...
... instance of Bentley's critical skill , I should not forget that place in the Plutus of Aristophanes , ✯ . 1010 . which puzzled the Grecian critics , being an old inveterate evil , juft gloffed over , ' till Bentley probed it to the ...
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... instances , is not very unlike the Hamlet of Shakespeare . Aegyfthus and Clytemneftra ; having murthered the former king , were in poffeffion of the crown , when Oreftes returned from Phocis , where he had been privately fent by his ...
... instances , is not very unlike the Hamlet of Shakespeare . Aegyfthus and Clytemneftra ; having murthered the former king , were in poffeffion of the crown , when Oreftes returned from Phocis , where he had been privately fent by his ...
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... instance , that can be cited , to countenance that famous paffage in Plato's banquet , where the philofopher makes a tragic and a comic poet both allow , against their inclinations , that he who according to the best rules of art was a ...
... instance , that can be cited , to countenance that famous paffage in Plato's banquet , where the philofopher makes a tragic and a comic poet both allow , against their inclinations , that he who according to the best rules of art was a ...
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... instances , the reader may see the propriety of the change in Theocritus of ΠΑΙΣΙΝ into ΠΑΣΙΝ . 19. Plato in Gorg . p . 505. edit . Steph . 20. Ibid . p . 506 . after , after , according to his elegant manner . The Stoic 124 Critical ...
... instances , the reader may see the propriety of the change in Theocritus of ΠΑΙΣΙΝ into ΠΑΣΙΝ . 19. Plato in Gorg . p . 505. edit . Steph . 20. Ibid . p . 506 . after , after , according to his elegant manner . The Stoic 124 Critical ...
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... instance , the lyric poet in ridicule of the vulgar opinion of the tranfmigration of fouls , as well as to fhew the inhumanity of failors , feigns a dialogue between the ghost of Archytas and a mariner , who finds Archytas ' body on the ...
... instance , the lyric poet in ridicule of the vulgar opinion of the tranfmigration of fouls , as well as to fhew the inhumanity of failors , feigns a dialogue between the ghost of Archytas and a mariner , who finds Archytas ' body on the ...
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