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But a work of this kind is not hastily to be charged with superfluities ; those
quotations, which to careless or unskilful perusers appear only to repeat the
same sense, will often exhibit, to a more accurate examiner, diversities of
signification, or, ...
But a work of this kind is not hastily to be charged with superfluities ; those
quotations, which to careless or unskilful perusers appear only to repeat the
same sense, will often exhibit, to a more accurate examiner, diversities of
signification, or, ...
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This comedy is remarkable for the variety and number of the personages, who
exhibit more characters appropriated and discriminated, than perhaps can be
found in any other play. Whether Shakespeare was the first that produced upon
the ...
This comedy is remarkable for the variety and number of the personages, who
exhibit more characters appropriated and discriminated, than perhaps can be
found in any other play. Whether Shakespeare was the first that produced upon
the ...
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That this play has scenes noble in themselves, and very well contrived to strike in
the exhibition, cannot be denied. But some parts are trifling, others shocking, and
some improbable. I have nothing to add to the observations of the learned ...
That this play has scenes noble in themselves, and very well contrived to strike in
the exhibition, cannot be denied. But some parts are trifling, others shocking, and
some improbable. I have nothing to add to the observations of the learned ...
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By this method we can indeed exhibit only a general idea, at once magnificent
and confused ; an idea of the writings of many nations, collected from distant
parts of the world, discovered sometimes by chance, and sometimes by curiosity
...
By this method we can indeed exhibit only a general idea, at once magnificent
and confused ; an idea of the writings of many nations, collected from distant
parts of the world, discovered sometimes by chance, and sometimes by curiosity
...
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Mr. Warburton has indeed so much depressed the character of his adversary, that
before I consider the controversy between them, I think it necessary to exhibit
some specimens of Mr. Crousaz's sentiments, by which it will probably be shewn,
...
Mr. Warburton has indeed so much depressed the character of his adversary, that
before I consider the controversy between them, I think it necessary to exhibit
some specimens of Mr. Crousaz's sentiments, by which it will probably be shewn,
...
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