Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... leaves their examples to operate by chance . This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and justice is a virtue in- dependent on time or place . The plots are often ...
... leaves their examples to operate by chance . This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and justice is a virtue in- dependent on time or place . The plots are often ...
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... leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leifure to bestow upon it . Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of ...
... leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leifure to bestow upon it . Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of ...
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... leaves his work unfinished . A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn afide from his career , or stoop from his elevation . A quibble , poor and barren as it is , gave him fuch delight , that he was content to ...
... leaves his work unfinished . A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn afide from his career , or stoop from his elevation . A quibble , poor and barren as it is , gave him fuch delight , that he was content to ...
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... leaves another naked and barren ; the fudden meteors of intelligence , which for a while appear to shoot their beams into the regions of obscurity , on a sudden withdraw their luftre , and leave mortals again to grope their way . These ...
... leaves another naked and barren ; the fudden meteors of intelligence , which for a while appear to shoot their beams into the regions of obscurity , on a sudden withdraw their luftre , and leave mortals again to grope their way . These ...
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... leave inflammations and gangrene behind him . When I think on one , with his confederates , I remember the danger of Coriolanus , who was afraid that girls with fpits , and boys with fiones , fhould flay him in puny battle ; when the ...
... leave inflammations and gangrene behind him . When I think on one , with his confederates , I remember the danger of Coriolanus , who was afraid that girls with fpits , and boys with fiones , fhould flay him in puny battle ; when the ...
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Page 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
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...