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Page 189
... exhibits no just picture of life . The Merry Wives of Windsor II.i.129 . PAGE . I will not believe such a Cataian , tho ... exhibit more characters appropriated and dis- criminated , than , perhaps , can be found in any other play . G ...
... exhibits no just picture of life . The Merry Wives of Windsor II.i.129 . PAGE . I will not believe such a Cataian , tho ... exhibit more characters appropriated and dis- criminated , than , perhaps , can be found in any other play . G ...
Page 416
... exhibit a series of versification , which had in English poetry no precedent , nor has since had an imitation . The design of Windsor Forest is evidently derived from Cooper's Hill , with some attention to Waller's poem on The Park ...
... exhibit a series of versification , which had in English poetry no precedent , nor has since had an imitation . The design of Windsor Forest is evidently derived from Cooper's Hill , with some attention to Waller's poem on The Park ...
Page 419
... exhibit , independently of its references , a pleasing image ; for a simile is said to be a short episode . To this antiquity was so attentive , that circumstances were sometimes added , which , having no parallels , served only to fill ...
... exhibit , independently of its references , a pleasing image ; for a simile is said to be a short episode . To this antiquity was so attentive , that circumstances were sometimes added , which , having no parallels , served only to fill ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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