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most unnatural , Events and Incidents ; the most exaggerated Thoughts ; the most
verbose and bombast Expression ; the most pompous Rhymes , and thundering
Versification . In Comedy , nothing was so sure to Please , as mean buffoonry ...
most unnatural , Events and Incidents ; the most exaggerated Thoughts ; the most
verbose and bombast Expression ; the most pompous Rhymes , and thundering
Versification . In Comedy , nothing was so sure to Please , as mean buffoonry ...
Page xvi
By these men it was thought a praise to ShakeSpear , that he scarce ever blotted
a line . This they industriously propagated , as appears from what we are told by
Ben Yobnfon in his Discoveries , and from the preface of Heminges and Condell
...
By these men it was thought a praise to ShakeSpear , that he scarce ever blotted
a line . This they industriously propagated , as appears from what we are told by
Ben Yobnfon in his Discoveries , and from the preface of Heminges and Condell
...
Page xvii
false thoughts , forc'd expressions , & c . if these are not to be ascrib'd to the
foresaid accidental reasons , they must be charg'd upon the Poet himself , and
there is no help for it . But I think the two Difadvantages which I have mention'd (
to be ...
false thoughts , forc'd expressions , & c . if these are not to be ascrib'd to the
foresaid accidental reasons , they must be charg'd upon the Poet himself , and
there is no help for it . But I think the two Difadvantages which I have mention'd (
to be ...
Page xxiv
... they are in this edition divided according as they play'd them often where there
is no pause in the action , or where they thought fit to make a breach in it , for the
sake of Musick , Masques , or Monsters , Some( a ) Much ado about nothing .
... they are in this edition divided according as they play'd them often where there
is no pause in the action , or where they thought fit to make a breach in it , for the
sake of Musick , Masques , or Monsters , Some( a ) Much ado about nothing .
Page xxvii
From one or other of these confiderations , I am verily perswaded , that the
greatest and the groffest part of what are thought his errors would vanish , and
leave his character in a light very different from that disadvantageous one , in
which it ...
From one or other of these confiderations , I am verily perswaded , that the
greatest and the groffest part of what are thought his errors would vanish , and
leave his character in a light very different from that disadvantageous one , in
which it ...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1 The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Sir Thomas Hanmer |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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