THE

BEAUTIES

O F

SHAKESPEAR:

REGULARLY SELECTED FROM

EACH PLA

WITH A

GENERAL INDEX

DIGESTING THEM UNDER PROPER HEADS,

ILLUSTRATED WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES, AND SIMILAR PASSAGES,
FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS.

BY WILLIAM DODD, L.L.D.

LATE OF CLARE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n,

And, as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name. See Mid.Night's Dr. vol. 1. p. 232.

FOR J. MACGOWAN, No. 27, PATER-NOSTER ROW.

M,DCC,LXXX.

THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOL UM E.

COMEDIES.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

DISSERTATION ON THE PRETERNATURAL BE-

INGS OF SHAKESPEAR, FROM MRS. MONTAGUE, I

THE TEMPEST,

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