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 VoltaireH. Hughs, 1772 - 288 pages |
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... stage : and what are most parts of Corneille's boafted tragedies , but the romantic dialogue , its tedious foliloquy , and its extravagant fentiments in the true Gothic livery of rhyme ? The French poets affume a fuperiority over ...
... stage : and what are most parts of Corneille's boafted tragedies , but the romantic dialogue , its tedious foliloquy , and its extravagant fentiments in the true Gothic livery of rhyme ? The French poets affume a fuperiority over ...
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... stage had exhibited only thofe palpable allegories , by which rude unletter- ed moralifts instruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion , the poets of those times had of the ignorance ...
... stage had exhibited only thofe palpable allegories , by which rude unletter- ed moralifts instruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion , the poets of those times had of the ignorance ...
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... Stage is contrived to impose the delufion on the fpec- tator , by confpiring with the imitation . It is addreffed to the imagination , through which it opens to itself a communication with the heart , where it is to excite certain ...
... Stage is contrived to impose the delufion on the fpec- tator , by confpiring with the imitation . It is addreffed to the imagination , through which it opens to itself a communication with the heart , where it is to excite certain ...
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... Stage , and is the effect alone of strong - work- ing fympathy , and paffions agitated by the peculiar force and activity of the dramatic manner . Writers of feeble genius , in their compofitions for the Stage , frequently de- viate ...
... Stage , and is the effect alone of strong - work- ing fympathy , and paffions agitated by the peculiar force and activity of the dramatic manner . Writers of feeble genius , in their compofitions for the Stage , frequently de- viate ...
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... Stage is fufpended . The pompous declamations of the French Theatre are mere rhetorical flourishes , fuch as an uninterested person might make on the state of the perfons in the drama . They affume the office of the Spectator by ...
... Stage is fufpended . The pompous declamations of the French Theatre are mere rhetorical flourishes , fuch as an uninterested person might make on the state of the perfons in the drama . They affume the office of the Spectator by ...
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