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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... heart , and the artificial dialect which he has acquired from the prejudices of a particular nation , or the jargon caught from the tone of a court . To please upon the French ftage , every person of every age and nation was made to ...
... heart , and the artificial dialect which he has acquired from the prejudices of a particular nation , or the jargon caught from the tone of a court . To please upon the French ftage , every person of every age and nation was made to ...
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... through which it opens to itself a communication to the heart , where it is to excite certain paffions and affections : each character being perfo- perfonated , and each event exhibited , the attention of On DRAMATIC POETRY . 29.
... through which it opens to itself a communication to the heart , where it is to excite certain paffions and affections : each character being perfo- perfonated , and each event exhibited , the attention of On DRAMATIC POETRY . 29.
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... heart . To make mankind in confeious virtue bold , Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold . He afçribes fuch power to a well - wrought fcene , as to afk , When Cato groans who does not wish to bleed ? He would not have fuppofed ...
... heart . To make mankind in confeious virtue bold , Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold . He afçribes fuch power to a well - wrought fcene , as to afk , When Cato groans who does not wish to bleed ? He would not have fuppofed ...
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... heart , require we should adore her for the glitter of a few false brilliants , or the nice arrange- ment of frippery ornaments ? If she wears any thing of intrinfic value it has been borrowed from the ancients ; but by these artists it ...
... heart , require we should adore her for the glitter of a few false brilliants , or the nice arrange- ment of frippery ornaments ? If she wears any thing of intrinfic value it has been borrowed from the ancients ; but by these artists it ...
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... 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 examples . Sophocles , in his admirable tragedy of Edipus ...
... 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 examples . Sophocles , in his admirable tragedy of Edipus ...
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