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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... confident tyrant " Keeps ftill in Dunfinane.- " The Editors have here spoiled the measure ; " in order to give a tyrant an epithet , which does " not belong to him : ( namely confidence , or repo- fing himself securely in any thing or ...
... confident tyrant " Keeps ftill in Dunfinane.- " The Editors have here spoiled the measure ; " in order to give a tyrant an epithet , which does " not belong to him : ( namely confidence , or repo- fing himself securely in any thing or ...
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... confidence ; for though he was ignorant of the facts , the confidence of Macbeth , which was the refult of those facts , could not but be publicly known . CANON IV . Where he does not like an expreffion , and yet cannot mend it ; He may ...
... confidence ; for though he was ignorant of the facts , the confidence of Macbeth , which was the refult of those facts , could not but be publicly known . CANON IV . Where he does not like an expreffion , and yet cannot mend it ; He may ...
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... confident affertion of the truth of his opinion . And , that the fuperiority of foldiership was the point of their difpute ; is moft manifeftly evident , by Brutus ' refuming it a little lower ; " You fay , you are a better foldier ...
... confident affertion of the truth of his opinion . And , that the fuperiority of foldiership was the point of their difpute ; is moft manifeftly evident , by Brutus ' refuming it a little lower ; " You fay , you are a better foldier ...
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... confidence ] Play on the word " confidence . " Warb . EXAMP . IV . Ibid . P. 432. CORIOLANUS . - " let us revenge ourselves with our pikes , e'er " we become rakes . " " -Time , who has done greater things , has here " ftifled a ...
... confidence ] Play on the word " confidence . " Warb . EXAMP . IV . Ibid . P. 432. CORIOLANUS . - " let us revenge ourselves with our pikes , e'er " we become rakes . " " -Time , who has done greater things , has here " ftifled a ...
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... confidence ! Vol . 6. P. 284 . No two sentences , expreffing the fame fentiment , can well be more different in the form of them than these two . Ennius fpeaks directly of him - felf , by a fimple affirmations promptam gero . I show it ...
... confidence ! Vol . 6. P. 284 . No two sentences , expreffing the fame fentiment , can well be more different in the form of them than these two . Ennius fpeaks directly of him - felf , by a fimple affirmations promptam gero . I show it ...
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affertion againſt alfo allufion alteration anfwer authority becauſe beſt cafe called CANON caufe cauſe chooſe CORIOLANUS CYMBELINE defign Dunciad edition emendation Engliſh EXAMP expreffed expreffion faid fame fatire feems fenfe fenſe fentiment fhall fhew fhould read fignify fince firft firſt fome fpeaking fpear fpeech ftand ftill ftrange fuch fuppofe furely give HENRY HENRY IV himſelf Ibid inftances itſelf juft JULIUS CÆSAR juſt King KING LEAR laft laſt LEAR loft MACBETH mean meaſure MEASURE FOR MEASURE metaphor miſtake moft moſt muft muſt nonfenfe obfervation occafion OTHELLO Oxford editor paffage perfon poet Pope praiſe Pref prefent Profeffed Critic purpoſe reafon ſays ſeems ſenſe Shakeſpear wrote ſhall Sir Thomas Hanmer SONNET ſpeak ſuppoſe thee thefe Theobald theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought TIMON OF ATHENS true underſtand underſtood uſed verſe VIII WARB Warburton whofe whoſe word
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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.