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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Page 138
... ghosts , and his fairies , feem fpirits of health or goblins damn'd ; bring with them airs from heaven , or blasts from bell . His ghofts are fullen , melancholy , and terrible . Every fentence , utter'd by the witches , is a prophecy ...
... ghosts , and his fairies , feem fpirits of health or goblins damn'd ; bring with them airs from heaven , or blasts from bell . His ghofts are fullen , melancholy , and terrible . Every fentence , utter'd by the witches , is a prophecy ...
Page 140
... ghosts , at the midnight hour , vifiting the glimpses of the moon , and whispering a bloody fecret , from propriety of place and action , derive a credibility very propitious to the scheme of the poet . Reddere perfonæ― convenientia ...
... ghosts , at the midnight hour , vifiting the glimpses of the moon , and whispering a bloody fecret , from propriety of place and action , derive a credibility very propitious to the scheme of the poet . Reddere perfonæ― convenientia ...
Page 158
... ghost of Hamlet is an object of contempt or ridicule . Let us candidly examine these royal fhades , as exhibited to us by thofe great masters in the art of exciting pity and terror , Æfchylus and Shakespear ; and impartially decide ...
... ghost of Hamlet is an object of contempt or ridicule . Let us candidly examine these royal fhades , as exhibited to us by thofe great masters in the art of exciting pity and terror , Æfchylus and Shakespear ; and impartially decide ...
Page 159
... ghost as an instance of the barbarism of our theatre . The Perfians , of Æfchylus , is certainly one of the most august spectacles that ever was represented on a theatre ; nobly imagined , happily fuf- tained , regularly conducted ...
... ghost as an instance of the barbarism of our theatre . The Perfians , of Æfchylus , is certainly one of the most august spectacles that ever was represented on a theatre ; nobly imagined , happily fuf- tained , regularly conducted ...
Page 160
... ghost's difap- pearing at the cock's crowing , explain why , in reafon , a ghoft in Perfia , or in Greece , should be more fond of milk and honey , than averse , in Denmark , to the crowing of a cock . Each poet adopted , in his work ...
... ghost's difap- pearing at the cock's crowing , explain why , in reafon , a ghoft in Perfia , or in Greece , should be more fond of milk and honey , than averse , in Denmark , to the crowing of a cock . Each poet adopted , in his work ...
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