An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, EsqJ. Archdeacon, 1767 - 50 страници |
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... ancient literature , like any other man on the fame occafion , he rather carries his acquirements above , than below the truth . Jealoufy cries Mr. Upton ; People will allow others any qualities , but those upon which they highly value ...
... ancient literature , like any other man on the fame occafion , he rather carries his acquirements above , than below the truth . Jealoufy cries Mr. Upton ; People will allow others any qualities , but those upon which they highly value ...
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... Collections : particularly the fpurious Edition of Shakespeare's Poems , 1640. Some account of him may be met with in Wood's Athena . 3 Ancients Ancients to allow much acquaintance between them : and urged LEARNING OF SHAKESPEARE . 5.
... Collections : particularly the fpurious Edition of Shakespeare's Poems , 1640. Some account of him may be met with in Wood's Athena . 3 Ancients Ancients to allow much acquaintance between them : and urged LEARNING OF SHAKESPEARE . 5.
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... Ancients , ought to be looked upon as a detractor from the Glory of Great Britain . " Dennis was expelled his College for at- tempting to ftab a man in the dark : Pope would have been glad of this anecdote . were were most punctually ...
... Ancients , ought to be looked upon as a detractor from the Glory of Great Britain . " Dennis was expelled his College for at- tempting to ftab a man in the dark : Pope would have been glad of this anecdote . were were most punctually ...
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... Ancients might be actually proved by the fame medium as Jonson's . Mr. Theobald is " very unwilling to allow him fo poor a scholar , as many have laboured to reprefent him ; " and yet is " cautious of declaring too pofi- tively on the ...
... Ancients might be actually proved by the fame medium as Jonson's . Mr. Theobald is " very unwilling to allow him fo poor a scholar , as many have laboured to reprefent him ; " and yet is " cautious of declaring too pofi- tively on the ...
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... Ancients ; and have fometimes . perfuaded us of their own learning , whatever became of their Author's . Plagiarisms have been discovered in every natural defcription and every moral fenti- ment . Indeed by the kind affiftance of the ...
... Ancients ; and have fometimes . perfuaded us of their own learning , whatever became of their Author's . Plagiarisms have been discovered in every natural defcription and every moral fenti- ment . Indeed by the kind affiftance of the ...
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Страница 22 - Bible, by consulting the Concordance of Alexander Cruden. But whence have we the Plot of Timon, except from the Greek of Lucian?
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Страница 77 - He was esteemed,' says Anthony Wood, ' a most noted poet, 1579 ; but when or where he died, I cannot tell, for so it is, and always hath been, that most Poets die poor, and consequently obscurely, and a hard matter it is to trace them to their graves.
Страница 8 - ... peruse over before, once or twice, the chapters and homilies, to the intent they might read to the better understanding of the people.
Страница 90 - I have quoted many pieces of John Taylor, but it was impossible to give their original dates. He may be traced as an author for more than half a century.
Страница 9 - Wagstaff on Tom Thumb; and I myself will engage to give you quotations from the elder English writers (for, to own the truth, I was once idle enough to collect such,) which shall carry with them at least an equal degree of similarity. But there can be no occasion of wasting any future time in this department: the world is now in possession of the Marks of Imitation. " Shakespeare however hath frequent allusions to the facts and fables of antiquity.
Страница 85 - Heminge and Condell ; who at their own retirement, about seven years after the death of their author, gave the world the edition now known by the name of the first folio ; and call the previous publications " stolne and surreptitious, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors.
Страница 88 - Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeare in his tomb, he should triumph againe on the stage, and haue his bones new embalmed with the teares of ten thousand spectators at least, (at seuerall times) who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding?