The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 1R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... imitation . If other poets draw more than one fool or coxcomb , there is the same resem- blance in them , as in that painter's draughts who was happy only at forming a rose : you find them all younger brothers of the same family , and ...
... imitation . If other poets draw more than one fool or coxcomb , there is the same resem- blance in them , as in that painter's draughts who was happy only at forming a rose : you find them all younger brothers of the same family , and ...
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... imitation of them . Speret idem , sudet multùm , frustráque laboret , Ausus idem . Indeed to point out and exclaim upon all the beauties of Shakspeare , as they come singly in review , would be as insipid , as endless ; as tedious , as ...
... imitation of them . Speret idem , sudet multùm , frustráque laboret , Ausus idem . Indeed to point out and exclaim upon all the beauties of Shakspeare , as they come singly in review , would be as insipid , as endless ; as tedious , as ...
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... imitate them , if that point be allowed ; or how gloriously he could think like them , without owing any thing to imitation . writer has given his opinion which should not be suppressed . " You will ask me , perhaps , now I am on this ...
... imitate them , if that point be allowed ; or how gloriously he could think like them , without owing any thing to imitation . writer has given his opinion which should not be suppressed . " You will ask me , perhaps , now I am on this ...
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... imitation in the one whose learning was not questioned ) may some- times take its rise from strength of memory , and those impressions which he owed to the school . And if we may allow a possibility of this , considering that , when he ...
... imitation in the one whose learning was not questioned ) may some- times take its rise from strength of memory , and those impressions which he owed to the school . And if we may allow a possibility of this , considering that , when he ...
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... imitation of him , I have done the same by as many others as I thought most deserving of the reader's attention , and have marked them with double commas . If , from all this , Shakspeare or good letters have re- ceived any advantage ...
... imitation of him , I have done the same by as many others as I thought most deserving of the reader's attention , and have marked them with double commas . If , from all this , Shakspeare or good letters have re- ceived any advantage ...
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