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 57
... use these public entertainments should be chiefly intended , know the battle of Shrewsbury to be a Fact : they are in- formed of what paffed on the banks of the Severn ; all that happened on the shore of the Scamander has , to them ...
... use these public entertainments should be chiefly intended , know the battle of Shrewsbury to be a Fact : they are in- formed of what paffed on the banks of the Severn ; all that happened on the shore of the Scamander has , to them ...
Page 63
... use of any of them . Those which we should have judged most barren , have brought forth noble produc- tions when cultivated by an able hand . Even fairy land has produced the Sub- lime ; and the wild regions of Romance have fometimes ...
... use of any of them . Those which we should have judged most barren , have brought forth noble produc- tions when cultivated by an able hand . Even fairy land has produced the Sub- lime ; and the wild regions of Romance have fometimes ...
Page 90
... uses the liberty , which Horace allows , to call a Deity to his affiftance . This play opens by the king's declaring his intention to undertake the crufade , as foon as peace will allow him to do it . Weftmorland in- forms him of the ...
... uses the liberty , which Horace allows , to call a Deity to his affiftance . This play opens by the king's declaring his intention to undertake the crufade , as foon as peace will allow him to do it . Weftmorland in- forms him of the ...
Page 161
... use in the grave . As this touches the most abfurd and ridiculous foible in human nature , the increase of a greedy and folicitous defire of wealth , when the period . of enjoyment of it becomes more precarious and short , the ...
... use in the grave . As this touches the most abfurd and ridiculous foible in human nature , the increase of a greedy and folicitous defire of wealth , when the period . of enjoyment of it becomes more precarious and short , the ...
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... use seems to be under- stood only by our author , who alone has attained to a juft imitation of nature , in this kind of felf - conference . It is certain , that men do not tell them- felves who they are , and whence they came , they ...
... use seems to be under- stood only by our author , who alone has attained to a juft imitation of nature , in this kind of felf - conference . It is certain , that men do not tell them- felves who they are , and whence they came , they ...
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