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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... kind of heroic puppet - fhew . As these pieces take their rife in the school of Criticism , they re- turn thither again , and are as good subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute ...
... kind of heroic puppet - fhew . As these pieces take their rife in the school of Criticism , they re- turn thither again , and are as good subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute ...
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... kind ! But , when the living manners degenerated , in vain did an Arif- totle and a Quintilian endeavour to restore by doctrine , what had been infpired by fenti- ment , and fashioned by manners . If the feverer mufes , whofe fphere is ...
... kind ! But , when the living manners degenerated , in vain did an Arif- totle and a Quintilian endeavour to restore by doctrine , what had been infpired by fenti- ment , and fashioned by manners . If the feverer mufes , whofe fphere is ...
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... not deign to enquire , whe- ther they resemble the living perfons , they were intended to reprefent . Among these connoiffeurs , whose acquaintance with man- R B kind kind is formed in the library , not in the INTRODUCTION . 17.
... not deign to enquire , whe- ther they resemble the living perfons , they were intended to reprefent . Among these connoiffeurs , whose acquaintance with man- R B kind kind is formed in the library , not in the INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... kind is formed in the library , not in the ftreet , the camp , or village , whatever is unpolished and uncouth paffes for fantastic and abfurd , though , in fact , it is a faith- ful reprefentation of a really existing cha- racter . But ...
... kind is formed in the library , not in the ftreet , the camp , or village , whatever is unpolished and uncouth paffes for fantastic and abfurd , though , in fact , it is a faith- ful reprefentation of a really existing cha- racter . But ...
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... kind : as the people were totally illiterate , and the better fort alone could read even their mother tongue , their tafte was formed on these compofitions . As yet our stage had exhibited only thofe palpable allegories , by which rude ...
... kind : as the people were totally illiterate , and the better fort alone could read even their mother tongue , their tafte was formed on these compofitions . As yet our stage had exhibited only thofe palpable allegories , by which rude ...
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