The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... lines to their integrity ; but , by a very compendious cri- ticism , he rejected whatever he disliked , and thought more of amputation than of cure . I know not why he is commended by Dr. War buton for diftinguishing the genuine from ...
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... lines which the learned will think impoffible to be miftaken , and omit many for which the ignorant will want his help . Thefe are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuperfluoufly ...
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... lines . the violations of temerity , and fecu ed many fce : s from the inroads of correction . Ia e adopted the Roman fentiment , that it is more ho : ourable to fave a citizen , than to kill an enemy , and have been more careful to ...
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