The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
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... these two great Poets were good friends , and lived on amicable terms and in offices of fociety with each other . It is an acknowledged fact , that Ben Johnson was introduced upon the Stage , and his first works encouraged , by ...
... these two great Poets were good friends , and lived on amicable terms and in offices of fociety with each other . It is an acknowledged fact , that Ben Johnson was introduced upon the Stage , and his first works encouraged , by ...
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... these are enumerated and confidered , I dare to fay that not Shakespear only , but Ariftotle or Cicero , had their works undergone the fame fate , might have appear'd to want fenfe as well as learning . It is not certain that any one of ...
... these are enumerated and confidered , I dare to fay that not Shakespear only , but Ariftotle or Cicero , had their works undergone the fame fate , might have appear'd to want fenfe as well as learning . It is not certain that any one of ...
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... these , we meet with two or more editions by different printers , each of which has whole heaps of trafh different from the other : which I fhould fancy was occafion'd by their being taken from different copies , belonging to different ...
... these , we meet with two or more editions by different printers , each of which has whole heaps of trafh different from the other : which I fhould fancy was occafion'd by their being taken from different copies , belonging to different ...
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... These men ( as it was faid of Procruftes ) either lopping , or ftretching an Author , to make him juft fit for their Stage . This edition is faid to be printed from the Origi- nal Copies ; I believe they meant thofe which had lain ever ...
... These men ( as it was faid of Procruftes ) either lopping , or ftretching an Author , to make him juft fit for their Stage . This edition is faid to be printed from the Origi- nal Copies ; I believe they meant thofe which had lain ever ...
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... these latter fort , than for the former , which were equally published in his life - time . If we give into this opinon , how many low and vicious parts and paffages might no longer reflect upon this great Genius , but appear unworthily ...
... these latter fort , than for the former , which were equally published in his life - time . If we give into this opinon , how many low and vicious parts and paffages might no longer reflect upon this great Genius , but appear unworthily ...
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 66 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...