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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... honour only by augmenting the heap of volumes given by his admirers to his memory . I will own , I was incited to this undertaking by great admiration of his genius , and still greater indignation at the treatment he has received from a ...
... honour only by augmenting the heap of volumes given by his admirers to his memory . I will own , I was incited to this undertaking by great admiration of his genius , and still greater indignation at the treatment he has received from a ...
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... were ranged under the white or red Rofe , in whose contentions fome had loft their parents and friends , others had gained establishments and honours . All All ' the inducements which the Greek tragedians had to 66 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... were ranged under the white or red Rofe , in whose contentions fome had loft their parents and friends , others had gained establishments and honours . All All ' the inducements which the Greek tragedians had to 66 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
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... honour dispute with all the fophiftry of the fchools , and one knows not when the conteft would end , if heral- dry did not step in and decide the point , as in the foliloquy of the Infanta in the Cid . L'INFANTE . T'écouterai - je ...
... honour dispute with all the fophiftry of the fchools , and one knows not when the conteft would end , if heral- dry did not step in and decide the point , as in the foliloquy of the Infanta in the Cid . L'INFANTE . T'écouterai - je ...
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... honour of both nations , the lover and his bodkin , and the foldiers and their halberds , had always been hiffed off the ftage . Our countryman was betrayed into his error by want of judgment , to difcern what part of his story was not ...
... honour of both nations , the lover and his bodkin , and the foldiers and their halberds , had always been hiffed off the ftage . Our countryman was betrayed into his error by want of judgment , to difcern what part of his story was not ...
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... honour of conquering him ; and it is more agreeable to the spectator , as the event was , to beat down The never - daunted Percy to the earth , to fuppofe it did not happen from the arrow of a peafant , but from the sword of Henry ...
... honour of conquering him ; and it is more agreeable to the spectator , as the event was , to beat down The never - daunted Percy to the earth , to fuppofe it did not happen from the arrow of a peafant , but from the sword of Henry ...
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