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, Volume 1 |
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Page xxxvi
... spirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and therefore deserves to pafs through all fucceeding publications . The nation had been for many years content enough with Mr. Rowe's performance , when Mr. Pope made them ac ...
... spirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and therefore deserves to pafs through all fucceeding publications . The nation had been for many years content enough with Mr. Rowe's performance , when Mr. Pope made them ac ...
Page xliv
... - ligence can exalt to spirit . The notes which I have borrowed or written are either il- luftrative , by which difficulties are explained ; or judicial , by which faults and beauties are remarked ; or emendatory xliv PREFACE .
... - ligence can exalt to spirit . The notes which I have borrowed or written are either il- luftrative , by which difficulties are explained ; or judicial , by which faults and beauties are remarked ; or emendatory xliv PREFACE .
Page lxiv
... spirit now and then break out , which manifeft his high extraction and qualities . It may be added , that not only the common audience had no notion of the rules of writing , but few even of the bet- ter fort piqu'd themselves upon any ...
... spirit now and then break out , which manifeft his high extraction and qualities . It may be added , that not only the common audience had no notion of the rules of writing , but few even of the bet- ter fort piqu'd themselves upon any ...
Page lxvii
... spirit , but manners , of the Romans , are exactly drawn ; and ftill a nicer diftinction is fhewn , between the manners of the Romans , in the time of the former , and of the latter . His reading in the ancient hiftorians is no lefs ...
... spirit , but manners , of the Romans , are exactly drawn ; and ftill a nicer diftinction is fhewn , between the manners of the Romans , in the time of the former , and of the latter . His reading in the ancient hiftorians is no lefs ...
Page lxix
... spirit of oppofition ran fo high , that whatever thofe of the one fide objected to the other , was taken at the rebound , and turned into praises ; as injudiciously , as their antagonists be- fore had made them objections . Poets are ...
... spirit of oppofition ran fo high , that whatever thofe of the one fide objected to the other , was taken at the rebound , and turned into praises ; as injudiciously , as their antagonists be- fore had made them objections . Poets are ...
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