The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, Volume 7J. Darby, 1725 |
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... seems to have hit his Character best , when he says , --Shakespear , Fancy's Sweetest Child , Warbles native Wood - notes wild . The Child of Fancy , with the additional Epithet of sweetest , is an Expression perfectly fine , becoming ...
... seems to have hit his Character best , when he says , --Shakespear , Fancy's Sweetest Child , Warbles native Wood - notes wild . The Child of Fancy , with the additional Epithet of sweetest , is an Expression perfectly fine , becoming ...
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... seem a harder Fate , than what our Poets here are liable to : But whilft Ignorance is to be Judge of Art , and the Direction of the Theatre is in such Hands , it is certain , the Cafe is much the fame . For the Fate of a Play depends on ...
... seem a harder Fate , than what our Poets here are liable to : But whilft Ignorance is to be Judge of Art , and the Direction of the Theatre is in such Hands , it is certain , the Cafe is much the fame . For the Fate of a Play depends on ...
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... seems inimitable yet , & c . : : In what I have to say of the Rules , I shall confine my self to them , without going into the Controverfy , yet I shall fometimes add the Reason and Foundation , that being the Extremity my Bounds will ...
... seems inimitable yet , & c . : : In what I have to say of the Rules , I shall confine my self to them , without going into the Controverfy , yet I shall fometimes add the Reason and Foundation , that being the Extremity my Bounds will ...
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... seem done by Design , as the Fall of the Statue of Mitys on his Murderer , which kill'd him , for that Accident looks like the Work of Providence . Those Fables , where this is observ'd , will always appear the finest . Thus Oedipus is ...
... seem done by Design , as the Fall of the Statue of Mitys on his Murderer , which kill'd him , for that Accident looks like the Work of Providence . Those Fables , where this is observ'd , will always appear the finest . Thus Oedipus is ...
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... seems to relate chiefly to the Greek and Latin Diction , so it will not be amiss to give you something like it in the English , at the Rise of the Drama here . I shall take the Examples of both from Shakespear alone , to show this Error ...
... seems to relate chiefly to the Greek and Latin Diction , so it will not be amiss to give you something like it in the English , at the Rise of the Drama here . I shall take the Examples of both from Shakespear alone , to show this Error ...
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