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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... subject for criticism . Animated by an opinion of fuch authority , fome of the most learned and ingenious of our critics have made correct editions of his works , and enriched them with notes . The fuperiority of talents and learning ...
... subject for criticism . Animated by an opinion of fuch authority , fome of the most learned and ingenious of our critics have made correct editions of his works , and enriched them with notes . The fuperiority of talents and learning ...
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... subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute- ly too have they been anatomised in learned academies : but works , animated by Genius , will not abide this kind of diffection . Mr ...
... subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute- ly too have they been anatomised in learned academies : but works , animated by Genius , will not abide this kind of diffection . Mr ...
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... subject , and makes the Poet , who should be concealed in the action , visible to the fpectator . In many works of art , Our pleasure arifes from a reflection on the art itself ; and in a comparison , drawn by the mind , between the ...
... subject , and makes the Poet , who should be concealed in the action , visible to the fpectator . In many works of art , Our pleasure arifes from a reflection on the art itself ; and in a comparison , drawn by the mind , between the ...
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... subjects . The blinded lover , after many complaints , and wishes for revenge , hears the noise of a tempeft , and thus breaks out : PYMANTE . Mes menaces déja font trembler tout le monde : Le vent fuit d'épouvante , et le tonnetre en ...
... subjects . The blinded lover , after many complaints , and wishes for revenge , hears the noise of a tempeft , and thus breaks out : PYMANTE . Mes menaces déja font trembler tout le monde : Le vent fuit d'épouvante , et le tonnetre en ...
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... teftimony an authority , and their misfortunes a warning . Love and ambition are the subjects of the French plays . From the first of these paffions many F many by age and temper are entirely ex- empted : On the HISTORICAL DRAMA , 81.
... teftimony an authority , and their misfortunes a warning . Love and ambition are the subjects of the French plays . From the first of these paffions many F many by age and temper are entirely ex- empted : On the HISTORICAL DRAMA , 81.
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