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 3 |
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... fatire to bring them back to their fenfes . The French fuffered an eafier cure from their Doctor Rabelais , who enough difcredited the books of Chivalry , by only using the extravagant stories of its Giants , & c . as a cover for ...
... fatire to bring them back to their fenfes . The French fuffered an eafier cure from their Doctor Rabelais , who enough difcredited the books of Chivalry , by only using the extravagant stories of its Giants , & c . as a cover for ...
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... fatire is , for the most part , general , and as himself fays , his taxing like a wild goofe flies , Unclaim'd of any man . The place before us feems to be an exception . For by Holofernes is defigned a particular character , a pedant ...
... fatire is , for the most part , general , and as himself fays , his taxing like a wild goofe flies , Unclaim'd of any man . The place before us feems to be an exception . For by Holofernes is defigned a particular character , a pedant ...
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... fatire of Shakespeare is so seldom perfonal . It is of the nature of perfonal invectives to be foon unintelligible ; and the author that gratifies private malice , animam in volnere penit , deftroys the future efficacy of his own writ ...
... fatire of Shakespeare is so seldom perfonal . It is of the nature of perfonal invectives to be foon unintelligible ; and the author that gratifies private malice , animam in volnere penit , deftroys the future efficacy of his own writ ...
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... fatire . --summi plenâ jam margine libri Scriptus , & in tergo , nec dum finitus Oreftes . THEOB . * P. 65. L. 4.・ for poft care , is ftill paft cure . ] The tranfpofition which I have made in the two words , are and cure , is by the ...
... fatire . --summi plenâ jam margine libri Scriptus , & in tergo , nec dum finitus Oreftes . THEOB . * P. 65. L. 4.・ for poft care , is ftill paft cure . ] The tranfpofition which I have made in the two words , are and cure , is by the ...
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... fatire , on the bribery of courts , not unpleafant WARBURTON . Ibid . ] This fatire or this pleasantry , I confels myself not well to understand . JOHNS . L. 16. A great man by the picking of his teeth . ] It feems , that to pick the ...
... fatire , on the bribery of courts , not unpleafant WARBURTON . Ibid . ] This fatire or this pleasantry , I confels myself not well to understand . JOHNS . L. 16. A great man by the picking of his teeth . ] It feems , that to pick the ...
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Popular passages
Page 6 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Page 56 - Subtle as sphinx: as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 158 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 55 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 207 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.