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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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. known to few and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful in- vention may delight a - while , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. known to few and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful in- vention may delight a - while , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. It will not eafily be imagined how much Shakespeare excells in accommodating his fentiments to real life , but by comparing him with other authors . It was observed of the ancient schools of ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. It will not eafily be imagined how much Shakespeare excells in accommodating his fentiments to real life , but by comparing him with other authors . It was observed of the ancient schools of ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. 1 world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular or exorbi- tant , was a caufe of happiness or calamity . Characters thus ample and general ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. 1 world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular or exorbi- tant , was a caufe of happiness or calamity . Characters thus ample and general ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him , may ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him , may ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. • The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing comic and tragic fcenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be firft ftated , and then exa- mined . Shakespeare's ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson. • The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing comic and tragic fcenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be firft ftated , and then exa- mined . Shakespeare's ...
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