The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, Volume 7J. Darby, 1725 |
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Page xiii
... Excellence , Force , Power and Compass of our Mother English ; after which they will hardly feek out for harsh and unnatural Imitations of a Dead Language . BUT enough of this . It is not my Province to speak of SHAKESPEAR's Plays ...
... Excellence , Force , Power and Compass of our Mother English ; after which they will hardly feek out for harsh and unnatural Imitations of a Dead Language . BUT enough of this . It is not my Province to speak of SHAKESPEAR's Plays ...
Page xv
... Excellence , there could be no Juftice done to Merit , to which Poetafters , and Poets must elfe have an equal Claim , which is the highest Degree of Barbarifm . Nay , without an Ap- peal to these very Rules , Shakespear himself is not ...
... Excellence , there could be no Juftice done to Merit , to which Poetafters , and Poets must elfe have an equal Claim , which is the highest Degree of Barbarifm . Nay , without an Ap- peal to these very Rules , Shakespear himself is not ...
Page xv
... Excellence : The like has been done by the Remarker on Cato . This indeed fa- vours of Ill - nature and Envy : But fure no body will accuse Ari- Stotle of the fame Crime , for those he discovers in Sophocles , Eu- ripides , and fome ...
... Excellence : The like has been done by the Remarker on Cato . This indeed fa- vours of Ill - nature and Envy : But fure no body will accuse Ari- Stotle of the fame Crime , for those he discovers in Sophocles , Eu- ripides , and fome ...
Page xv
... Excellence , no fix'd Rules to go by ; then it muft of confequence be an arbitrary Licence of writing what extravagant thing foever one pleases ; and that Mess of Madness , that is most plaufibly cook'd up by the Players , and goes beft ...
... Excellence , no fix'd Rules to go by ; then it muft of confequence be an arbitrary Licence of writing what extravagant thing foever one pleases ; and that Mess of Madness , that is most plaufibly cook'd up by the Players , and goes beft ...
Page xv
... Excellence , there could be no Juftice done to Merit , to which Poetafters , and Poets muft elfe have an equal Claim , which is the highest Degree of Barbarifm . Nay , without an Ap- peal to thefe very Rules , Shakespear himself is not ...
... Excellence , there could be no Juftice done to Merit , to which Poetafters , and Poets muft elfe have an equal Claim , which is the highest Degree of Barbarifm . Nay , without an Ap- peal to thefe very Rules , Shakespear himself is not ...
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