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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... honour only by augmenting the heap of volumes given by his admirers to his me- mory ; I will own I was incited to this undertaking by great admiration of his genius , and ftill greater indignation at the treatment he had received from a ...
... honour only by augmenting the heap of volumes given by his admirers to his me- mory ; I will own I was incited to this undertaking by great admiration of his genius , and ftill greater indignation at the treatment he had received from a ...
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... or red Rofe , in whofe contentions fome had loft their parents and friends , others had gained establishments and honours . All All the inducements which the Greek tragedians had to chufe 66 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... or red Rofe , in whofe contentions fome had loft their parents and friends , others had gained establishments and honours . All All the inducements which the Greek tragedians had to chufe 66 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
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... honour dispute with all the fophiftry of the fchools , and one knows not when the contest would end , if heral- dry did not step in and decide the point , as in the foliloquy of the Infanta in the Cid , L'INFANTE . T'écouterai - je ...
... honour dispute with all the fophiftry of the fchools , and one knows not when the contest would end , if heral- dry did not step in and decide the point , as in the foliloquy of the Infanta in the Cid , L'INFANTE . T'écouterai - je ...
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... honour of both nati- ons , the lover and his bodkin , and the fol- diers and their halberds , had always been hiffed off the ftage . Our countryman was betrayed into his error by want of judgment , to difcern what part of his ftory was ...
... honour of both nati- ons , the lover and his bodkin , and the fol- diers and their halberds , had always been hiffed off the ftage . Our countryman was betrayed into his error by want of judgment , to difcern what part of his ftory was ...
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... honour of conquering him ; and it is more agreeable to the fpectator , as the event was , to beat down The never - daunted Percy to the earth , to fuppofe it did not happen from the arrow of a peafant , but from the fword of Henry ...
... honour of conquering him ; and it is more agreeable to the fpectator , as the event was , to beat down The never - daunted Percy to the earth , to fuppofe it did not happen from the arrow of a peafant , but from the fword of Henry ...
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