The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, Band 1 |
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... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
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... mind can only repose on the stability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is conti- nued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is ...
... mind can only repose on the stability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is conti- nued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is ...
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... the petty cavils of petty minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country and con- dition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . • The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing comic PREFACE . vii.
... the petty cavils of petty minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country and con- dition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . • The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing comic PREFACE . vii.
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... mind but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided between ferious and ludicrous cha racters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fome- times produce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and laughter ...
... mind but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided between ferious and ludicrous cha racters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fome- times produce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and laughter ...
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... mind is softened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dialogue , he never ...
... mind is softened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dialogue , he never ...
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