The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play. With a general index, digesting them under proper heads. Illustrated with explanatory notes, and similar passages from ancient and modern authors. By William Dodd, B. A. Late of Clare-Hall, Cambridge. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. See. Midsummer Night's Dream, In two volumes. ...

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MDCCLXXIII. [1773]