Some account of the life, etc. of Wm. Shakespeare, by [Nicholas] Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaVernor, Hood and Sharp, 1809 |
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... ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not superior , to some of the best of theirs , ) would certainly have led him to read and study them with so much pleasure , that some of ...
... ancients . The delicacy of his taste , and the natural bent of his own great genius , ( equal , if not superior , to some of the best of theirs , ) would certainly have led him to read and study them with so much pleasure , that some of ...
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... ancients , he had likewise not stolen any thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topic finely treated by any one of them , he would undertake to show something upon the same subject at least as well written by ...
... ancients , he had likewise not stolen any thing from them ; and that if he would produce any one topic finely treated by any one of them , he would undertake to show something upon the same subject at least as well written by ...
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... ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . To works , however , of which the excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and ...
... ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . To works , however , of which the excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and ...
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... ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal ...
... ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal ...
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... ancient schools of declamation , that the more diligently they were frequented , the more was the student disqualified for the world , because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place . The same remark may be ...
... ancient schools of declamation , that the more diligently they were frequented , the more was the student disqualified for the world , because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place . The same remark may be ...
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