Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a fenator of Rome , fhould play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard , But Shakespeare ...
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a fenator of Rome , fhould play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard , But Shakespeare ...
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... kings , while armies are levied and towns befieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw courting his mistress , shall lament the untimely fall of his fon . The mind revolts from evident falfehood , and fiction ...
... kings , while armies are levied and towns befieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw courting his mistress , shall lament the untimely fall of his fon . The mind revolts from evident falfehood , and fiction ...
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... King Lear , fpeaks of the original as of an obfcure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend ; and the author of the Tatler , having occafion to quote a few lines out of Macbeth , was content to receive them from Betterton's altera ...
... King Lear , fpeaks of the original as of an obfcure piece , recommended to his notice by a friend ; and the author of the Tatler , having occafion to quote a few lines out of Macbeth , was content to receive them from Betterton's altera ...
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... King of Salamis , tranflated from Ifocrates , by Tho . Forreft , 4to . ༔ ༔ * 1580 Not having feen this Book , I am by no means certain that it is an abfolute Tranflation of the Greck Author . LUCIAN . LUCIAN . Necromantia , a Dialog of ...
... King of Salamis , tranflated from Ifocrates , by Tho . Forreft , 4to . ༔ ༔ * 1580 Not having feen this Book , I am by no means certain that it is an abfolute Tranflation of the Greck Author . LUCIAN . LUCIAN . Necromantia , a Dialog of ...
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... King of Perfye , & c . transl . out of Gr . into Engl . by Mr. William Bercher . Lond . 12mo . 1567 and 1569 Do. by Dr. Philemon Holland Xenophon's Treatife of House - hold right , connyngly tranfl . out of the Greke tongue , & c . by ...
... King of Perfye , & c . transl . out of Gr . into Engl . by Mr. William Bercher . Lond . 12mo . 1567 and 1569 Do. by Dr. Philemon Holland Xenophon's Treatife of House - hold right , connyngly tranfl . out of the Greke tongue , & c . by ...
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Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...