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FOR 1778:

BY SHAKESPEARE.

PART II.

HE WAS NOT OF AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIMES.

Ben. Johnfan.

LONDON:

Printed for D. BROWNE, (No. 6) Garrick's Head, Catherine-street, Strand; and Sold by all the Bookfellers in Town and Country.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

456442

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1909

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THE praise bestowed upon several

eminent writers, "That their works will be a perpetual treasure of delight and instruction to mankind," cannot be applied with more propriety to any Author than to Shakespeare.

His pictures are not fashionable dawbings, fuited to particular persons, times, place,, and countries, they are drawn with fuch truth and energy, heighten'd with fuch unfading colours, and finished with fuch inimitable touches of genius, as will ftamp them for ever, the admired and juft reprefentations of all ages, and all nations.

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Shakespears's Characters are as fresh to day as they were in the times of Elizabeth. and James. All the virtues, follies, vices, abilities and defects incident to human nature, with their different fhadows, variations, and attitudes, were present to this man's mind; and he conveys his thoughts and imagery with such rapidity, ease, and ftrength, as to excite the admiration of every Reader.

The fuccefs of a late very judicious felection of Shakespeare's Characters, apply'd to perfons now living, has encouraged the Publisher to follicit feveral Gentlemen, who have leifure, to bring forth from the inexhauftible mines of the innimitable dramatift, fome new treasure,

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