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... poems is , in proportion to the time and pains bestowed . To render Shakspere's meaning clear has been my aim . I do not make his poetry an occafion for giving leffons in etymology . It would have been easy , and not useless , to have ...
... poems is , in proportion to the time and pains bestowed . To render Shakspere's meaning clear has been my aim . I do not make his poetry an occafion for giving leffons in etymology . It would have been easy , and not useless , to have ...
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... poems . No fecond edition was published until 1640 ( printed 1639 ) , when they formed part of ' Poems : written by Wil . Shake - fpeare . Gent ' , a volume containing many pieces not by Shakspere . Here the Sonnets are printed with ...
... poems . No fecond edition was published until 1640 ( printed 1639 ) , when they formed part of ' Poems : written by Wil . Shake - fpeare . Gent ' , a volume containing many pieces not by Shakspere . Here the Sonnets are printed with ...
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... Poems with an addrefs to The Reader , in which he afferts that they are of the fame purity the Authour then living ... poem in twelve lines , numbered cxxvI . , is an Envoy ; while the xiv INTRODUCTION .
... Poems with an addrefs to The Reader , in which he afferts that they are of the fame purity the Authour then living ... poem in twelve lines , numbered cxxvI . , is an Envoy ; while the xiv INTRODUCTION .
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... poems may ftill be regarded as mere exercises of the fancy . Per- Such an explanation of the Sonnets has the merit of fimplicity ; it unties no knots but cuts all at a blow ; if the collection confifts of dif- connected exercises of the ...
... poems may ftill be regarded as mere exercises of the fancy . Per- Such an explanation of the Sonnets has the merit of fimplicity ; it unties no knots but cuts all at a blow ; if the collection confifts of dif- connected exercises of the ...
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... poem , or at most two connected poems , and these , they affure us , are of deeper fignificance than any mere poetical exercises can be . They form a ftupendous allegory ; they express a profound philofophy . The young friend whom ...
... poem , or at most two connected poems , and these , they affure us , are of deeper fignificance than any mere poetical exercises can be . They form a ftupendous allegory ; they express a profound philofophy . The young friend whom ...
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abfence againſt alſo Antony & Cleopatra beauty beauty's beſt bleſſed breaſt cloſe Compare Sonnet Cymbeline death defire doth Dyce fair falſe fame feems fhall fing firſt fome forrow foul ftill fuch fuggefts fummer Gentlemen of Verona glaſs hath heart himſelf itſelf King Henry laſt lines live look loſs love's Malone mayſt Meaſure Merchant of Venice miſtreſs moſt Muſe muſt myſelf night paffion paſt perfons pleaſe pleaſure poems poet praiſe preſent propoſes Quarto reaſon Romeo & Juliet roſe ſay ſecond ſee ſeem ſeen ſenſe ſhadow Shakſpere Shakſpere's ſhall ſhame ſhe ſhould ſhow ſkill ſome Sonnet 9 ſpeak ſpirit ſpoken ſtand ſtate ſtay Steevens ſtill ſtore ſtrange ſubject ſuch ſweet thee themſelves theſe thine eyes thoſe thou art thou doft thought thy fweet thyſelf Time's Timon of Athens treaſure truth uſe Venus & Adonis verfe verſe waſte Whilft whoſe yourſelf youth