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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... 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 , which I ...
... 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 , which I ...
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... critic , and a great poet of a neighbour- ing nation , treated as a writer of monstrous Farces , called by him Tragedies ; and bar- barifm and ignorance are attributed to the nation , by which he is admired . Yet if wits , poets , critics ...
... critic , and a great poet of a neighbour- ing nation , treated as a writer of monstrous Farces , called by him Tragedies ; and bar- barifm and ignorance are attributed to the nation , by which he is admired . Yet if wits , poets , critics ...
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... critic Boileau to their dramatic writers in the following lines : Gardez donc de donner , ainfi que dans Clélie , L'air ni l'efprit François à l'antique Italie ; Et fous des noms Romains faiffant notre portrait , Peindre Caton galant ...
... critic Boileau to their dramatic writers in the following lines : Gardez donc de donner , ainfi que dans Clélie , L'air ni l'efprit François à l'antique Italie ; Et fous des noms Romains faiffant notre portrait , Peindre Caton galant ...
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... critic , who profeffes himself an admirer of the tragedies of Corneille , ob- ject to the barbarism of Shakespear's . There never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the laft age , nor which from its ...
... critic , who profeffes himself an admirer of the tragedies of Corneille , ob- ject to the barbarism of Shakespear's . There never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the laft age , nor which from its ...
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... Critic imagined that a mere obedience to his laws of drama would make a good tragedy , tho ' it might prevent a poet more bold than judicious , from writ- ing a very abfurd one . A painter can define the just proportion of the human ...
... Critic imagined that a mere obedience to his laws of drama would make a good tragedy , tho ' it might prevent a poet more bold than judicious , from writ- ing a very abfurd one . A painter can define the just proportion of the human ...
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