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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... common roads . Genius is of a bold enterprizing nature , ill adapted to the formal reftraints of critic inftitutions , or indeed to lay down to itself rules of nice discretion . If perfect and faultless compofi- tion is ever to be ...
... common roads . Genius is of a bold enterprizing nature , ill adapted to the formal reftraints of critic inftitutions , or indeed to lay down to itself rules of nice discretion . If perfect and faultless compofi- tion is ever to be ...
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... common aim of all poetry to please and instruct ; but by means as various as the kinds of compo- fition . We are pleased with the ode , the elegy , the eclogue ; not only for having Invention , fpirit , elegance , and fuch per- fections ...
... common aim of all poetry to please and instruct ; but by means as various as the kinds of compo- fition . We are pleased with the ode , the elegy , the eclogue ; not only for having Invention , fpirit , elegance , and fuch per- fections ...
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... common language of dialogue , be fuch , as continually to fet the Art and the Artist before our eyes , the specific merit of a piece intended to conceal the Poet , and re- present certain perfons and events , does not , in any degree ...
... common language of dialogue , be fuch , as continually to fet the Art and the Artist before our eyes , the specific merit of a piece intended to conceal the Poet , and re- present certain perfons and events , does not , in any degree ...
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... common interests of humanity make us attentive to every story that has an air of reality , but we are more affected if we know it to be true ; and the intereft is ftill heightened if we have any relation to the perfons concerned . Our ...
... common interests of humanity make us attentive to every story that has an air of reality , but we are more affected if we know it to be true ; and the intereft is ftill heightened if we have any relation to the perfons concerned . Our ...
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... common fame had divulged of them , muft have en- gaged the attention of the fpectator , and affifted in that delufion of his Imagination , from whence his fympathy with the story muft arife . We are affected by the catastro- phe of a ...
... common fame had divulged of them , muft have en- gaged the attention of the fpectator , and affifted in that delufion of his Imagination , from whence his fympathy with the story muft arife . We are affected by the catastro- phe of a ...
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