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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... Shakespear , fets out with declaring , that , of all English poets , this author offers the fullest and fairest subject for criticism . Animated by an opinion of fuch authority , fome of the most learned and ingenious of our critics ...
... Shakespear , fets out with declaring , that , of all English poets , this author offers the fullest and fairest subject for criticism . Animated by an opinion of fuch authority , fome of the most learned and ingenious of our critics ...
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... Shakespear for the want of delicacy and politeness in his pieces . It must be owned , that in fome places they bear the marks of the unpolished times , in which he wrote , but one cannot forbear fmil- ing to hear a critic , who ...
... Shakespear for the want of delicacy and politeness in his pieces . It must be owned , that in fome places they bear the marks of the unpolished times , in which he wrote , but one cannot forbear fmil- ing to hear a critic , who ...
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... Shakespear's works , we are not to apply to the rules of Ariftotle , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one coun- try , who lived under thofe of another .. Heaven - born Genius acts from fomething fu- perior A 4 perior to ...
... Shakespear's works , we are not to apply to the rules of Ariftotle , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one coun- try , who lived under thofe of another .. Heaven - born Genius acts from fomething fu- perior A 4 perior to ...
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... 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 scientific jargon , and a certain obscurity of style was univerfally affected . James ...
... 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 scientific jargon , and a certain obscurity of style was univerfally affected . James ...
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