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 43
... murder , would not have been endured in any country where taste had not been abfolutely perverted . Mr. Voltaire has the candor to own this is a bad tragedy ; but Corneille tells us , it was his good fortune to find it the general ...
... murder , would not have been endured in any country where taste had not been abfolutely perverted . Mr. Voltaire has the candor to own this is a bad tragedy ; but Corneille tells us , it was his good fortune to find it the general ...
Page 115
... murders and treafons , learn for once , from rude and illiterate Shakespear , how averse pride is coolly to confefs , and prudence to betray , what the fever and deliriums of ambition had prompted to do . Falstaffe appears with his ...
... murders and treafons , learn for once , from rude and illiterate Shakespear , how averse pride is coolly to confefs , and prudence to betray , what the fever and deliriums of ambition had prompted to do . Falstaffe appears with his ...
Page 126
... murders the has committed , and those fhe ftill intends to commit , to her waiting - woman , for whofe parts fhe expreffes at the fame time a fovereign contempt . · Here Here I cannot help taking notice that as the poet's 126 The Second ...
... murders the has committed , and those fhe ftill intends to commit , to her waiting - woman , for whofe parts fhe expreffes at the fame time a fovereign contempt . · Here Here I cannot help taking notice that as the poet's 126 The Second ...
Page 127
... murder his mis- trefs , the other the fon to murder his mother . Here again an inftance offers itself of our Shakespear's fuperior knowledge of the heart of man . King John wishes to instigate Hu- bert to kill Prince Arthur , but ...
... murder his mis- trefs , the other the fon to murder his mother . Here again an inftance offers itself of our Shakespear's fuperior knowledge of the heart of man . King John wishes to instigate Hu- bert to kill Prince Arthur , but ...
Page 155
... murder , then other circumftances . of a special and inferior kind , were not to have any weight . I am inclined to think this tragedy is a mixture of history and allegory . Æfchylus affected the allegorical manner fo much as to form a ...
... murder , then other circumftances . of a special and inferior kind , were not to have any weight . I am inclined to think this tragedy is a mixture of history and allegory . Æfchylus affected the allegorical manner fo much as to form a ...
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