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 43
... murder , would not have been endured in any country , where taste had not been abfolutely perverted . Mr. Voltaire has the candor to own , this is a bad Tragedy ; but Corneille tells us , it was his good fortune to find it the general ...
... murder , would not have been endured in any country , where taste had not been abfolutely perverted . Mr. Voltaire has the candor to own , this is a bad Tragedy ; but Corneille tells us , it was his good fortune to find it the general ...
Page 115
... murders and treafons , learn for once , from rude and illiterate Shakespear , how averse pride is coolly to confefs , and prudence to betray , what the fever and deliriums of ambition have prompted us to do , Falstaffe appears with his ...
... murders and treafons , learn for once , from rude and illiterate Shakespear , how averse pride is coolly to confefs , and prudence to betray , what the fever and deliriums of ambition have prompted us to do , Falstaffe appears with his ...
Page 126
... murders she has committed , and those fhe still intends to commit , to her waiting woman , for whofe parts the expreffes at the fame time . she a fovereign contempt . Here Here I cannot help taking notice , that as the 126 The Second ...
... murders she has committed , and those fhe still intends to commit , to her waiting woman , for whofe parts the expreffes at the fame time . she a fovereign contempt . Here Here I cannot help taking notice , that as the 126 The Second ...
Page 127
... murder his mistress , the other the fon to murder his mother . Here again an instance offers itself of our Shakespear's fuperior knowledge of the heart of man . King John wishes to inftigate Hubert to kill Prince Arthur , but obferve ...
... murder his mistress , the other the fon to murder his mother . Here again an instance offers itself of our Shakespear's fuperior knowledge of the heart of man . King John wishes to inftigate Hubert to kill Prince Arthur , but obferve ...
Page 155
... murder , then other circumstances of a special and inferior kind , were not to have any weight . I am inclined to think this tragedy is a mixture of History and Allegory . Æfchylus affected the allegorical manner so much , as to form a ...
... murder , then other circumstances of a special and inferior kind , were not to have any weight . I am inclined to think this tragedy is a mixture of History and Allegory . Æfchylus affected the allegorical manner so much , as to form a ...
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