The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 4F. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... writer has always peculiarities equally distinguishable with those of the painter . The peculiar manner of each arises from the desire , natural to every performer , of facilitating his subsequent work by recurrence to his former ideas ...
... writer has always peculiarities equally distinguishable with those of the painter . The peculiar manner of each arises from the desire , natural to every performer , of facilitating his subsequent work by recurrence to his former ideas ...
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... writing . Mr. Pope has expressed his surprise , that " the style of this comedy is less figurative and more natural and unaffected than the greater part of this author's , THOUGH supposed to be one of the first he wrote . " But I ...
... writing . Mr. Pope has expressed his surprise , that " the style of this comedy is less figurative and more natural and unaffected than the greater part of this author's , THOUGH supposed to be one of the first he wrote . " But I ...
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... writing universally admired by his contemporaries , and for not foreseeing that in a century after his death , these ... write they had been enforced by Sidney in a treatise which doubtless he had read ; so he seems to have thought that ...
... writing universally admired by his contemporaries , and for not foreseeing that in a century after his death , these ... write they had been enforced by Sidney in a treatise which doubtless he had read ; so he seems to have thought that ...
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... writes to Lord Hunsdon , & c . and mentions in the P. S. to his letter , that George Flecke had yesterday night the boots , and is said to have confessed that the E. of Morton was privy to the poisoning the E. of Athol , 16 March , 1580 ...
... writes to Lord Hunsdon , & c . and mentions in the P. S. to his letter , that George Flecke had yesterday night the boots , and is said to have confessed that the E. of Morton was privy to the poisoning the E. of Athol , 16 March , 1580 ...
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... smoke . " If it should be urged , that " Fire that is closest " is a smoother line , I answer that we are not to re - write our author's plays . MALONE . Did in your name receive it ; pardon the fault 20 . ACT I. TWO GENTLEMEN.
... smoke . " If it should be urged , that " Fire that is closest " is a smoother line , I answer that we are not to re - write our author's plays . MALONE . Did in your name receive it ; pardon the fault 20 . ACT I. TWO GENTLEMEN.
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Page 390 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Page 20 - I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so, because I think him so.
Page 283 - 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 53 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Page 380 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?