Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... best authors , to ap- ply the verb properly to one fubftantive , and improperly often to the other : ( fee the fchol . on Sophocl . Elect . ✯ . 437 . Edit . Steph . p . 101. and Homer II . y . 327. ) he could not have abus'd that ...
... best authors , to ap- ply the verb properly to one fubftantive , and improperly often to the other : ( fee the fchol . on Sophocl . Elect . ✯ . 437 . Edit . Steph . p . 101. and Homer II . y . 327. ) he could not have abus'd that ...
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... best weapon to deal with the Devil . True penny is either by way of irony , or literally from the Greek reúnavON , veterator . Which word the Scholiaft on Aristophanes Clouds * . 447. explains , τρύμη , ὁ περιλελειμμένος ἐν τοῖς ...
... best weapon to deal with the Devil . True penny is either by way of irony , or literally from the Greek reúnavON , veterator . Which word the Scholiaft on Aristophanes Clouds * . 447. explains , τρύμη , ὁ περιλελειμμένος ἐν τοῖς ...
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... best given gentlemen of this court , and all they together fhew not fo much good will , fpend not fo much time , " bestow not fo many hours daily , orderly and conftantly " for the increase of learning and knowledge , as doth the ...
... best given gentlemen of this court , and all they together fhew not fo much good will , fpend not fo much time , " bestow not fo many hours daily , orderly and conftantly " for the increase of learning and knowledge , as doth the ...
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... BEST ENGLISH " TRAGEDIES , as a thing of itself , to all ju- " dicious ears , trivial and of no true mufical " delight ; which confifts only in apt numbers , fit quantity of fyllables , and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe ...
... BEST ENGLISH " TRAGEDIES , as a thing of itself , to all ju- " dicious ears , trivial and of no true mufical " delight ; which confifts only in apt numbers , fit quantity of fyllables , and the fenfe varioufly drawn out from one verfe ...
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... best poems : and of this , I fhall fpeak hereafter . Other plays of our poet are called , First and fecond parts , as The first and fecond parts of king Henry IV . But these 5. See below fect . XIV . 5 plays plays are independent each ...
... best poems : and of this , I fhall fpeak hereafter . Other plays of our poet are called , First and fecond parts , as The first and fecond parts of king Henry IV . But these 5. See below fect . XIV . 5 plays plays are independent each ...
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