The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we eftimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . VOL . I. [ A ] To To works , however , of which the excellence is.
... , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we eftimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . VOL . I. [ A ] To To works , however , of which the excellence is.
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... best understood . The poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revifion , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of eftablished fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century ...
... best understood . The poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revifion , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of eftablished fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century ...
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... best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worse , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion , which exigence forces out , are for the most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his invention ...
... best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worse , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion , which exigence forces out , are for the most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his invention ...
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... best of it they poffibly can ( as indeed ' tis their parts fo to doe ) your gallant , your courtier , and your cap- ten , had wont to be the foundest paymafters , and I thinke are ftill the fureft chapmen : and these by meanes that ...
... best of it they poffibly can ( as indeed ' tis their parts fo to doe ) your gallant , your courtier , and your cap- ten , had wont to be the foundest paymafters , and I thinke are ftill the fureft chapmen : and these by meanes that ...
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... best and most ef- fenciall parts of a gallant ( good cloathes , a proportionable legge , white hand , the Perfian locke , and a tollerable beard , ) are perfectly revealed . By fitting on the ftage you have a fign'd pattent to en ...
... best and most ef- fenciall parts of a gallant ( good cloathes , a proportionable legge , white hand , the Perfian locke , and a tollerable beard , ) are perfectly revealed . By fitting on the ftage you have a fign'd pattent to en ...
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