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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... taste , which would equally disdain quaintness of ornament , " or the rude neglect of elegance and decorum . Such periods had Greece , had Rome ! Then were produced immortal works of every kind ! But , when the living manners dege ...
... taste , which would equally disdain quaintness of ornament , " or the rude neglect of elegance and decorum . Such periods had Greece , had Rome ! Then were produced immortal works of every kind ! But , when the living manners dege ...
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... taste . Shakespear wrote at a time when learning was tinctured with pedantry ; wit was un- polished , and mirth ill - bred . The court of Elizabeth spoke a fcientific jargon , and a certain obfcurity of ftyle was univerfally affected ...
... taste . Shakespear wrote at a time when learning was tinctured with pedantry ; wit was un- polished , and mirth ill - bred . The court of Elizabeth spoke a fcientific jargon , and a certain obfcurity of ftyle was univerfally affected ...
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... taste , thought he had done well when he faithfully copied nature , or represented customs , it will ap- pear to politer times the error of an untu- tored mind ; which the example of judicious artifts , and the admonitions of delicate ...
... taste , thought he had done well when he faithfully copied nature , or represented customs , it will ap- pear to politer times the error of an untu- tored mind ; which the example of judicious artifts , and the admonitions of delicate ...
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... taste was formed on these compositions . As yet our ftage had exhibited only those palpable allegories by which rude unlettered moralifts inftruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion ...
... taste was formed on these compositions . As yet our ftage had exhibited only those palpable allegories by which rude unlettered moralifts inftruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion ...
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... Elizabeth Robinson Montagu. fentiment will pronounce our Shakespear a mighty genius ; judgment and taste will con- fess that as a writer he is far from being faultlefs . 1 ON THE DRAM A : OR , ON DRAMATIC B 3 ON INTRODUCTION . 21.
... Elizabeth Robinson Montagu. fentiment will pronounce our Shakespear a mighty genius ; judgment and taste will con- fess that as a writer he is far from being faultlefs . 1 ON THE DRAM A : OR , ON DRAMATIC B 3 ON INTRODUCTION . 21.
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