Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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Page xlii
... passage in Measure for Measure , At IV . " Duke . There is written in your brow , 66 Provost , bonefty and conftancy ; If I read it not " truly , my ancient skill beguiles me ; but in the boldness of my cunning , I will lay myself in ...
... passage in Measure for Measure , At IV . " Duke . There is written in your brow , 66 Provost , bonefty and conftancy ; If I read it not " truly , my ancient skill beguiles me ; but in the boldness of my cunning , I will lay myself in ...
Page xliv
... passage in King Lear , Act I. 66 66 Regan . That I profefs Myself an enemy to all other joys , " Which the most precious fquare of fenfe poffeffes . " Which the most precious fquare of fenfe poffeffes . ] 66 By the fquare of fenfe , we ...
... passage in King Lear , Act I. 66 66 Regan . That I profefs Myself an enemy to all other joys , " Which the most precious fquare of fenfe poffeffes . " Which the most precious fquare of fenfe poffeffes . ] 66 By the fquare of fenfe , we ...
Page xlvi
... passage , and seeking after diftant and far - fetched allufions to other passages : yet all this fig - leave covering will but the more ferve to difcover the nakedness of the commentator to the difcerning eye of the real Critic . 2 ...
... passage , and seeking after diftant and far - fetched allufions to other passages : yet all this fig - leave covering will but the more ferve to difcover the nakedness of the commentator to the difcerning eye of the real Critic . 2 ...
Page 403
... passage direct non- fenfe , which was understood in SHAKESPEARE'S " time by all his audience . " ] 66 A letter blotted , or a ftroke of the pen , might eafily occafion the corruption.The reader will not be dif pleased , perhaps , to see ...
... passage direct non- fenfe , which was understood in SHAKESPEARE'S " time by all his audience . " ] 66 A letter blotted , or a ftroke of the pen , might eafily occafion the corruption.The reader will not be dif pleased , perhaps , to see ...
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... passage of Virgil examined and refuted , 390 , & c . Of feveral paffages in Horace , refuted , 88 , n .. 109 , n . 165 , 166 , & c . 398. A passage in his differtati- on on Phalaris , examined , 106 , 107 . · Βελυλός , 322 . Bourn , 319 ...
... passage of Virgil examined and refuted , 390 , & c . Of feveral paffages in Horace , refuted , 88 , n .. 109 , n . 165 , 166 , & c . 398. A passage in his differtati- on on Phalaris , examined , 106 , 107 . · Βελυλός , 322 . Bourn , 319 ...
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