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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Page 137
... Ghosts , Fairies , Goblins , Elves , were as propitious , were as affistant to Shakespear , and gave as much of the Sublime , and of the Marvellous , to his fic- tions , as Nymphs , Satyrs , Fawns , and even the triple Geryon , to the ...
... Ghosts , Fairies , Goblins , Elves , were as propitious , were as affistant to Shakespear , and gave as much of the Sublime , and of the Marvellous , to his fic- tions , as Nymphs , Satyrs , Fawns , and even the triple Geryon , to the ...
Page 138
... ghosts , and his fairies , seem Spirits of health or goblins damn'd ; bring with them airs from heaven , or blasts from bell . His ghofts are fullen , melancholy , and terrible . Every fentence , utter'd by the Witches , is a prophecy ...
... ghosts , and his fairies , seem Spirits of health or goblins damn'd ; bring with them airs from heaven , or blasts from bell . His ghofts are fullen , melancholy , and terrible . Every fentence , utter'd by the Witches , is a prophecy ...
Page 140
... ghosts , at the midnight hour , vi- fiting the glimpses of the moon , and whis- pering a bloody fecret , from propriety of place and action , derive a credibility very propitious to the scheme of the Poet . Reddere perfona ...
... ghosts , at the midnight hour , vi- fiting the glimpses of the moon , and whis- pering a bloody fecret , from propriety of place and action , derive a credibility very propitious to the scheme of the Poet . Reddere perfona ...
Page 150
... when he raised the bloody ghost , or reared the warlike standard , His choice of these fubjects was judicious , if we confider the times in which he lived ; his management of them times 150 On the Præternatural Beings .
... when he raised the bloody ghost , or reared the warlike standard , His choice of these fubjects was judicious , if we confider the times in which he lived ; his management of them times 150 On the Præternatural Beings .
Page 158
... ghost of Hamlet is an object of contempt or ridicule . Let us candidly examine thefe royal fhades , as exhibited to us by those great masters in the art of exciting pity and terror , Æfchylus and Shakespear ; and impartially decide ...
... ghost of Hamlet is an object of contempt or ridicule . Let us candidly examine thefe royal fhades , as exhibited to us by those great masters in the art of exciting pity and terror , Æfchylus and Shakespear ; and impartially decide ...
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