An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireJ. Dodsley, 1769 - 288 pages |
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... shall not do justice to his native talents , when they are the object of confideration , if we do not remember the different circumstances under " which these writers were compofed . Shake fpear's plays were which INTRODUCTION . 13.
... shall not do justice to his native talents , when they are the object of confideration , if we do not remember the different circumstances under " which these writers were compofed . Shake fpear's plays were which INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... shall we not be apt to treat the cold formal precepts of the critic , with the fame peevish contempt that the good lady in the Guardian , smarting in the anguish of a burn , does her fon's pedantic .intrufion of Mr. Lock's doctrine , to ...
... shall we not be apt to treat the cold formal precepts of the critic , with the fame peevish contempt that the good lady in the Guardian , smarting in the anguish of a burn , does her fon's pedantic .intrufion of Mr. Lock's doctrine , to ...
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... shall be moved : but the direct and imme- diate way to the heart is by the fufferer's ex- preffion of his paffion . As there may be fome obfcurity in what I have faid on this fubject , I will endeavour to illustrate the doctrine by ...
... shall be moved : but the direct and imme- diate way to the heart is by the fufferer's ex- preffion of his paffion . As there may be fome obfcurity in what I have faid on this fubject , I will endeavour to illustrate the doctrine by ...
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... heroic labours , as to the sweat and toil of the poet in his closet , in afforting male and female rhymes . We have already remarked , that the more we revert from the stage stage to the poet , the less we shall be 38 On the DRAMA : or ,
... heroic labours , as to the sweat and toil of the poet in his closet , in afforting male and female rhymes . We have already remarked , that the more we revert from the stage stage to the poet , the less we shall be 38 On the DRAMA : or ,
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... shall be affected by what is acted ; and therefore if the diffi- culty of rhyme , and its apparent difference from the common language of dialogue , be fuch , as continually to fet the art and the artist before our eyes , the fpecific ...
... shall be affected by what is acted ; and therefore if the diffi- culty of rhyme , and its apparent difference from the common language of dialogue , be fuch , as continually to fet the art and the artist before our eyes , the fpecific ...
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