The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, Volume 7J. Darby, 1725 |
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... pass for Virtues , to the prejudice of the just Improve- ment of so noble an Art . Thus I shall all along recommend the Beauties of Shakespear ; but must beg leave to lay down the Rules of the Drama , lest we fall into an erroneous ...
... pass for Virtues , to the prejudice of the just Improve- ment of so noble an Art . Thus I shall all along recommend the Beauties of Shakespear ; but must beg leave to lay down the Rules of the Drama , lest we fall into an erroneous ...
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... pass'd for Authors of the first Rank ; tho their Writings , as Ben Johnson , in his Dif- coveries , has it , A Man would not wrap up any wholesome Drug in , & c . For if Poetry have no certain Standard of Excellence , no fix'd Rules to ...
... pass'd for Authors of the first Rank ; tho their Writings , as Ben Johnson , in his Dif- coveries , has it , A Man would not wrap up any wholesome Drug in , & c . For if Poetry have no certain Standard of Excellence , no fix'd Rules to ...
Page xv
... pass for Virtues , to the prejudice of the just Improve- ment of so noble an Art . Thus I shall all along recommend the Beauties of Shakespear ; but must beg leave to lay down the Rules of the Drama , lest we fall into an erroneous ...
... pass for Virtues , to the prejudice of the just Improve- ment of so noble an Art . Thus I shall all along recommend the Beauties of Shakespear ; but must beg leave to lay down the Rules of the Drama , lest we fall into an erroneous ...
Page xv
... pass'd for Authors of the first Rank ; tho their Writings , as Ben Johnson , in his Dif- coveries , has it , A Man would not wrap up any wholesome Drug in , & c . For if Poetry have no certain Standard of Excellence , no fix'd Rules to ...
... pass'd for Authors of the first Rank ; tho their Writings , as Ben Johnson , in his Dif- coveries , has it , A Man would not wrap up any wholesome Drug in , & c . For if Poetry have no certain Standard of Excellence , no fix'd Rules to ...
Page xv
... pass over the various Changes of Poetry , we must remem- ber that we owe to Homer the Epick Poem ; and in that , the Ori- gin of Tragedy , more excellent for the Regulation of the Paffions , than the Epopee , which only reach'd to ...
... pass over the various Changes of Poetry , we must remem- ber that we owe to Homer the Epick Poem ; and in that , the Ori- gin of Tragedy , more excellent for the Regulation of the Paffions , than the Epopee , which only reach'd to ...
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