Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... no night , & c . " [ N. B. here is turned into heried . ] So the Latins fometimes ufe the pronoun fuus . Ovid . Met . IV , 373 . Vota suos habuere deos . THEIR Gods , emphatically ; i . e . favorable THEIR xxxx P.REFACE . ད ...
... no night , & c . " [ N. B. here is turned into heried . ] So the Latins fometimes ufe the pronoun fuus . Ovid . Met . IV , 373 . Vota suos habuere deos . THEIR Gods , emphatically ; i . e . favorable THEIR xxxx P.REFACE . ད ...
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... in the Oreftes of Euripides . 15 If the reader has a mind to compare Shakespeare with the ancients , I would refer him to Ovid's Circe : and Medaea , confider it without admiring our poet's improve- ment of every 36 Critical Obfervations.
... in the Oreftes of Euripides . 15 If the reader has a mind to compare Shakespeare with the ancients , I would refer him to Ovid's Circe : and Medaea , confider it without admiring our poet's improve- ment of every 36 Critical Obfervations.
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... Ovid : and the glozing tempter at length catches her with flattery . B. IX , . 532. & c . What fhall we think after this of fuch un- poetical characters , as Marcia and Lucia in Addifon's Cato ? But the lefs that women appear on the ...
... Ovid : and the glozing tempter at length catches her with flattery . B. IX , . 532. & c . What fhall we think after this of fuch un- poetical characters , as Marcia and Lucia in Addifon's Cato ? But the lefs that women appear on the ...
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... Ovid . Met . III , 222 . Harpalos , ab agnálu rapio . Our poet fhews his great knowledge in antiquity in making the dog give the fignal . Hecate's dogs are mention'd in all the poets almost . Virg . Aen . VI , 257- Vifaeque canes ...
... Ovid . Met . III , 222 . Harpalos , ab agnálu rapio . Our poet fhews his great knowledge in antiquity in making the dog give the fignal . Hecate's dogs are mention'd in all the poets almost . Virg . Aen . VI , 257- Vifaeque canes ...
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... Ovid , in her magical ope rations is thus described , “ 14 Tum bis ad occafum , bis fe convertit að " ortus . " And Statius in the infernal facrifice . Theb . IV , 545- " Lacte quater fparfas . is to be corrected : he is fpeaking of the ...
... Ovid , in her magical ope rations is thus described , “ 14 Tum bis ad occafum , bis fe convertit að " ortus . " And Statius in the infernal facrifice . Theb . IV , 545- " Lacte quater fparfas . is to be corrected : he is fpeaking of the ...
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