The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, Volume 7J. Darby, 1725 |
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Page vii
... Use at all ; the Editors be- ing so very inconsiderable , as to drive Gentlemen of Taste back to the earliest Impressions of Books , where the genuine Sense appears in a truer Light than in the idle Comments of our mo- dern Publishers ...
... Use at all ; the Editors be- ing so very inconsiderable , as to drive Gentlemen of Taste back to the earliest Impressions of Books , where the genuine Sense appears in a truer Light than in the idle Comments of our mo- dern Publishers ...
Page viii
... 'd these Poems from an old Impression , in the Year 1710. at the same time with Mr. Rowe's , Publication of his Plays . He uses many Arguments Publi- viii The PREFACE . with Authors, who carry with the Rust of Antiquity...
... 'd these Poems from an old Impression , in the Year 1710. at the same time with Mr. Rowe's , Publication of his Plays . He uses many Arguments Publi- viii The PREFACE . with Authors, who carry with the Rust of Antiquity...
Page ix
William Shakespeare George Sewell. , Publication of his Plays . He uses many Arguments to prove them genuine , but the best is the Style , Spirit , and Fancy of SHAKESPEAR , which are not to be mistaken by any tolerable Judge in these ...
William Shakespeare George Sewell. , Publication of his Plays . He uses many Arguments to prove them genuine , but the best is the Style , Spirit , and Fancy of SHAKESPEAR , which are not to be mistaken by any tolerable Judge in these ...
Page xi
... Use of the Compound and Decompound Epithets , as if this was in a manner peculiar to SHAKESPRAR . have carried the matter further , and from thence argu'd SHAKE- SPEAR into an Understanding of the Greek Language , from whence they are ...
... Use of the Compound and Decompound Epithets , as if this was in a manner peculiar to SHAKESPRAR . have carried the matter further , and from thence argu'd SHAKE- SPEAR into an Understanding of the Greek Language , from whence they are ...
Page xv
... use to a few wife Men , who understand them , and all ' the rest make nothing of them ; and that it is better for them ' to get their Bread by Many , than to be look'd on by a Few ------ ' If this be so , I say , the same will be the ...
... use to a few wife Men , who understand them , and all ' the rest make nothing of them ; and that it is better for them ' to get their Bread by Many , than to be look'd on by a Few ------ ' If this be so , I say , the same will be the ...
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