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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... , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one coun- try , who lived under those of another.- Heaven - born genius acts from fomething A 4 fuperior fuperior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and INTRODUCTION . 2.
... , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one coun- try , who lived under those of another.- Heaven - born genius acts from fomething A 4 fuperior fuperior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and INTRODUCTION . 2.
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... those palpable allegories by which rude unlettered moralifts inftruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion the poets of those times had of the ignorance of the people , than the ...
... those palpable allegories by which rude unlettered moralifts inftruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion the poets of those times had of the ignorance of the people , than the ...
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... those prescribed in any art of poetry . While we feel the power and energy . of his predominant genius , shall we not be apt to treat the cold formal precepts of the critic , with the fame peevish contempt that the good lady in the ...
... those prescribed in any art of poetry . While we feel the power and energy . of his predominant genius , shall we not be apt to treat the cold formal precepts of the critic , with the fame peevish contempt that the good lady in the ...
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... those diftempers are in their most exafperated state . An epic poem is too abftrufe for the people ; the moral is too much enveloped , the language too elevated for their apprehenfion ; nor have they leifure , or application , to trace ...
... those diftempers are in their most exafperated state . An epic poem is too abftrufe for the people ; the moral is too much enveloped , the language too elevated for their apprehenfion ; nor have they leifure , or application , to trace ...
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... will hardly be allowed to those who fail in the most effential part of an art , to fet their performances as models . up Can they * Arift . chap . vi . who who have robbed the tragic mufe of all her virtue On DRAMATIC POETRY . 31.
... will hardly be allowed to those who fail in the most effential part of an art , to fet their performances as models . up Can they * Arift . chap . vi . who who have robbed the tragic mufe of all her virtue On DRAMATIC POETRY . 31.
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