The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, Volume 7J. Darby, 1725 |
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Page viii
... Poems should equal his curious Correctness : a less faulty one than the former is all the Reader is to expect . A fhort History , and some few occafional Remarks will be added , to give Light to fome Paffages , as well of the Author ...
... Poems should equal his curious Correctness : a less faulty one than the former is all the Reader is to expect . A fhort History , and some few occafional Remarks will be added , to give Light to fome Paffages , as well of the Author ...
Page ix
... Poem being entirely Allegorical . It has been remark'd , that more Poets have fprung from Spenfer than all our other English Writers ; to which let me add an Obfervation of the late Dr. Garth , That most of our late ones have been spoil ...
... Poem being entirely Allegorical . It has been remark'd , that more Poets have fprung from Spenfer than all our other English Writers ; to which let me add an Obfervation of the late Dr. Garth , That most of our late ones have been spoil ...
Page x
... Poets . AND yet I cannot place his Learning fo low as others have done , there being evident Marks thro all his ... Poems . He has prefix'd to them an Essay on the Rife and Pro- grefs of the Stage , and added Remarks on all his Plays ...
... Poets . AND yet I cannot place his Learning fo low as others have done , there being evident Marks thro all his ... Poems . He has prefix'd to them an Essay on the Rife and Pro- grefs of the Stage , and added Remarks on all his Plays ...
Page xv
... Poets never thought of , or defign'd , they have advanc'd fo un- reasonable a Bigotry to our Poet , that if a Man , by Art and Reafon , but queftion the greatest and most abfurd of his Faults , with the Romans of old , on the fame ...
... Poets never thought of , or defign'd , they have advanc'd fo un- reasonable a Bigotry to our Poet , that if a Man , by Art and Reafon , but queftion the greatest and most abfurd of his Faults , with the Romans of old , on the fame ...
Page xv
... Poets , particularly Ovid ; two of his Epiftles being translated by him : His Motto to Venus and Adonis is another Proof . But that he had read Plautus himself , is plain from his Comedy of Errors , which is taken vifibly from the Me ...
... Poets , particularly Ovid ; two of his Epiftles being translated by him : His Motto to Venus and Adonis is another Proof . But that he had read Plautus himself , is plain from his Comedy of Errors , which is taken vifibly from the Me ...
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