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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... allowed far to furpafs all dramatic writers , and even Homer himself ; he gives an air of reality to every thing , and , in spite of many and great faults , effects , better than any one has done , the chief purposes of the theatrical ...
... allowed far to furpafs all dramatic writers , and even Homer himself ; he gives an air of reality to every thing , and , in spite of many and great faults , effects , better than any one has done , the chief purposes of the theatrical ...
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... . It will hardly be allowed to those who fail in the most effential part of an art , to fet their performances as models . up Can they * Arift . chap . vi . who who have robbed the tragic mufe of all her virtue On DRAMATIC POETRY . 31.
... . It will hardly be allowed to those who fail in the most effential part of an art , to fet their performances as models . up Can they * Arift . chap . vi . who who have robbed the tragic mufe of all her virtue On DRAMATIC POETRY . 31.
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... to be rigid observers of the Costumi , and the dramatic poet who is to imitate fentiment , difcourfe , and action , fhould be allowed to neglect them . : ON THE HISTORICAL DRA M A. Nec minimum meruere D 2 ON On DRAMATIC POETRY . 51.
... to be rigid observers of the Costumi , and the dramatic poet who is to imitate fentiment , difcourfe , and action , fhould be allowed to neglect them . : ON THE HISTORICAL DRA M A. Nec minimum meruere D 2 ON On DRAMATIC POETRY . 51.
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... allowed to be the best preceptor . The catastrophe of these plays is not derived from a vain and idle fable of the wrath of Juno , or the revenge of flighted Bacchus ; nor is a man represented entangled in the web of fate , from which ...
... allowed to be the best preceptor . The catastrophe of these plays is not derived from a vain and idle fable of the wrath of Juno , or the revenge of flighted Bacchus ; nor is a man represented entangled in the web of fate , from which ...
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... allowed they are often exceptionable , but at the fame time we must observe , that though crouded too much , they are not so perplexed as to be unintelligible , which Corneille confeffes his Clitandre might be to those who faw it but ...
... allowed they are often exceptionable , but at the fame time we must observe , that though crouded too much , they are not so perplexed as to be unintelligible , which Corneille confeffes his Clitandre might be to those who faw it but ...
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