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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... conduct , rose to the authority of legiflators . The practice and manner of the three celebrated Greek trage- dians were by fucceeding critics established as dramatic laws : happily for Shakespear , Mr. Johnson , whofe genius and ...
... conduct , rose to the authority of legiflators . The practice and manner of the three celebrated Greek trage- dians were by fucceeding critics established as dramatic laws : happily for Shakespear , Mr. Johnson , whofe genius and ...
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... conduct of Polynices , than fympathy with his own forrow ; of which we can judge only as fpectators ; for he has explained to us merely the external duties and relations of parent and child . The pangs of paternal tender- nefs , thus ...
... conduct of Polynices , than fympathy with his own forrow ; of which we can judge only as fpectators ; for he has explained to us merely the external duties and relations of parent and child . The pangs of paternal tender- nefs , thus ...
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... conduct of the poet , but is the effect of his making us alternately hope and fear for this guiltless , unhappy man . We wait with trembling expectation for the anfwer of the oracle , and for the testimony of Phorbus , because we ...
... conduct of the poet , but is the effect of his making us alternately hope and fear for this guiltless , unhappy man . We wait with trembling expectation for the anfwer of the oracle , and for the testimony of Phorbus , because we ...
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... conducting their tragedy feems no lefs a deviation from that which the great poets practifed , and the best critics taught . If they have avoided monftrous errors and abfurdities , it is but ... conduct of the play On DRAMATIC POETRY . 41.
... conducting their tragedy feems no lefs a deviation from that which the great poets practifed , and the best critics taught . If they have avoided monftrous errors and abfurdities , it is but ... conduct of the play On DRAMATIC POETRY . 41.
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... conduct of the play , his fierce resentments of his wrongs , the noble frankness of the fon of Achilles , and the crafty wiles of Ulyffes , which are so finely exhibited in the tragedy of Sophocles , and fo deeply intereft us in the ...
... conduct of the play , his fierce resentments of his wrongs , the noble frankness of the fon of Achilles , and the crafty wiles of Ulyffes , which are so finely exhibited in the tragedy of Sophocles , and fo deeply intereft us in the ...
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