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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... excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon ...
... excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon ...
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... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and comparative ; to works not raised upon principles demonstrative and scien ific , but appealing wholly to observation and experience , o other test can be applied than length of ...
... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and comparative ; to works not raised upon principles demonstrative and scien ific , but appealing wholly to observation and experience , o other test can be applied than length of ...
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... excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge ...
... excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge ...
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... excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous ro- mances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived ...
... excellence or depravity , as the writers of barbarous ro- mances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived ...
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... the art of writing , I re- sign him to critical justice , without making any other de- mand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with 42 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... the art of writing , I re- sign him to critical justice , without making any other de- mand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with 42 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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