Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... story of real distress ; fo is that , in Otway's Venice preferv'd , between Jaffier and his wife . In Shakespeare ... stories , ought to have been excluded . But Dryden , in his epilogue to the second part of the conqueft of Granada ...
... story of real distress ; fo is that , in Otway's Venice preferv'd , between Jaffier and his wife . In Shakespeare ... stories , ought to have been excluded . But Dryden , in his epilogue to the second part of the conqueft of Granada ...
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... stories out of their own chronicles ; fuch feems the book of Job . To me it appears almost evident , that St. Jude alludes to a kind of dramatic poem ; [ yet Michael the archangel when contending with the Devil , he difputed about the ...
... stories out of their own chronicles ; fuch feems the book of Job . To me it appears almost evident , that St. Jude alludes to a kind of dramatic poem ; [ yet Michael the archangel when contending with the Devil , he difputed about the ...
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... stories were believed by the women in the Apostle's time ; he puts them in mind therefore of these received opinions , and condefcends to reafon on their own hypothefis for the angels fake then veil your faces , & c . From a like ...
... stories were believed by the women in the Apostle's time ; he puts them in mind therefore of these received opinions , and condefcends to reafon on their own hypothefis for the angels fake then veil your faces , & c . From a like ...
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... ing Shakespeare's name ; they don't seem ever to have given themselves the trouble of confi- dering , whether or no his story does not hang together , together , and the naturally and in order ; inter Sect . 5 . 4I on SHAKESPEARE .
... ing Shakespeare's name ; they don't seem ever to have given themselves the trouble of confi- dering , whether or no his story does not hang together , together , and the naturally and in order ; inter Sect . 5 . 4I on SHAKESPEARE .
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... story had a particular relation to the king then reigning , ' twas an interefting story ; and though full of machinery , yet probable , because the won- derful 2 1. Hamlet , Act III . he feems to have had in his mind what Donatus in his ...
... story had a particular relation to the king then reigning , ' twas an interefting story ; and though full of machinery , yet probable , because the won- derful 2 1. Hamlet , Act III . he feems to have had in his mind what Donatus in his ...
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