The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being a Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakespear: Collected from the Notes in that Celebrated Work, and Proper to be Bound Up with itC. Bathurst, opposite St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street., 1758 - 344 Seiten This work contains severe criticism of Warburton's work. Warburton was involved in several literary controversies. |
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... best Judges , that it is prefumed the Republication of them , together with the other pieces , which the Author left behind him , and which he had prepared for the press before his last illness , will be agreeable to the Public . The ...
... best Judges , that it is prefumed the Republication of them , together with the other pieces , which the Author left behind him , and which he had prepared for the press before his last illness , will be agreeable to the Public . The ...
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... best about you , there would have been a neceffity for fome alteration ; but the worst man here , does not fignify the wickedeft ; but the weakest , or leaft warlike : fo a better man , the best man in company , frequently refer to ...
... best about you , there would have been a neceffity for fome alteration ; but the worst man here , does not fignify the wickedeft ; but the weakest , or leaft warlike : fo a better man , the best man in company , frequently refer to ...
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... best beart of it . " " and the best heart of it . ] The expression is mon- " ftrous . The heart is fuppofed the feat of life : But " as if he had many lives , and to each of them a " heart , he fays , his beft heart . A way of fpeak ...
... best beart of it . " " and the best heart of it . ] The expression is mon- " ftrous . The heart is fuppofed the feat of life : But " as if he had many lives , and to each of them a " heart , he fays , his beft heart . A way of fpeak ...
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... best reading : First muft here fignify , chief ; but neither of the readings affects the general fenfe of the paffage . EXAMP . XVII . Vol . 6. P. 407. MACBETH . " All ready at A POINT ] At a point may mean , " all ready at a time ; but ...
... best reading : First muft here fignify , chief ; but neither of the readings affects the general fenfe of the paffage . EXAMP . XVII . Vol . 6. P. 407. MACBETH . " All ready at A POINT ] At a point may mean , " all ready at a time ; but ...
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... best reading of the three . But it fpoils the measure ! fays Mr. W. " Christian and heath'n must be belee'd and " calm'd . " ' Tis ftrange that Mr. W , after having so often jumbled together fuch throngs of confonants , as are enough to ...
... best reading of the three . But it fpoils the measure ! fays Mr. W. " Christian and heath'n must be belee'd and " calm'd . " ' Tis ftrange that Mr. W , after having so often jumbled together fuch throngs of confonants , as are enough to ...
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Seite 116 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Seite 39 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 146 - I'll take them, and there lie; And in that glorious supposition think He gains by death that hath such means to die.
Seite 226 - And to prove it to sense, let any one read 'aloud an hundred lines in any other play, and an hundred in this, and, if he per'ceives not the tone and cadence of his own voice to be involuntarily altered in the 'latter case from what it was in the former, I would never...
Seite 261 - Or thirst of wealth, thee from her banks divide: Reflect how calmly, like her infant wave, Flows the clear current of a private life: See the wide public stream, by tempests tost, Of every changing wind the sport or slave; Soil'd with corruption; vex'd with party strife; Cover'd with wrecks of peace and honor lost" Cambridge followed Edwards' advice and his own deep inclinations.
Seite 73 - And bears his blufhing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a froft, a killing froft ; And, — when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely His greatnefs is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that fwim on bladders, This many fummers in a fea of glory ; But far beyond my depth...
Seite 268 - Who fack'd thy Towns, and Caftles difarray'd : No longer now with idle forrow mourn Thy plunder'd wealth, or liberties reftrain'd, Nor deem their...
Seite 238 - Lycidas : But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. *' Thefe are the laft words of Peter, predicting <£ God's vengeance on his Church by his miniltry. " The making him the minifter, is in imitation of ** the Italian Poets; who in their fatiric pieces " againft the Church, always make Peter the mi
Seite 31 - ... both, when they came to try them upon English authors. Secondly, To deter the unlearned writer from wantonly trifling with an art he is a stranger to, at the expence of his own reputation, and the integrity of the text of established authors. But these uses may be well supplied by what is occasionally said upon the subject, in the course of the following remarks.
Seite 20 - He may find out a bawdy or immoral meaning in his Author where there does not appear to be any hint that way.