Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. VoltaireJ. Dodsley, 1769 - 288 pages |
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... See him in thẻ Iphigenia of Racine , on a fimilar occafion , where he tells Agamemnon , he is ready to cry , Je fuis pret de pleurer ; and examine whether there appears any thing of Ulyffes upon the ftage but his name . Nor is there a ...
... See him in thẻ Iphigenia of Racine , on a fimilar occafion , where he tells Agamemnon , he is ready to cry , Je fuis pret de pleurer ; and examine whether there appears any thing of Ulyffes upon the ftage but his name . Nor is there a ...
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... see Thefeus and Achilles wear French manners as a French drefs ? A little reflection would fhew it is more fo for there are relations between manners and fentiments , and none between dress and sentiment . It is ftrange that painters ...
... see Thefeus and Achilles wear French manners as a French drefs ? A little reflection would fhew it is more fo for there are relations between manners and fentiments , and none between dress and sentiment . It is ftrange that painters ...
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... See riot and difhonour ftain the brow . Of my young Harry : then he mentions Percy's refufal of his pri- foners , which Weftmorland attributes to the malevolent fuggeftions of Worcester . Thus at once is prefented to the fpectator , the ...
... See riot and difhonour ftain the brow . Of my young Harry : then he mentions Percy's refufal of his pri- foners , which Weftmorland attributes to the malevolent fuggeftions of Worcester . Thus at once is prefented to the fpectator , the ...
Page 103
... disguise in fport , being of such a nature as are easily washed out , without leaving any bad tinc- ture , And we see Henry , as foon as he is G 4 called called to the high , and serious duties of a The First Part of HENRY IV . 103.
... disguise in fport , being of such a nature as are easily washed out , without leaving any bad tinc- ture , And we see Henry , as foon as he is G 4 called called to the high , and serious duties of a The First Part of HENRY IV . 103.
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... ; When your own Percy , when my heart - dear Harry , Threw many a northward look , to see his father Bring up his pow'rs ; but he did long in vain ! H 2 Who Who then perfuaded you to stay at home ? There The Second Part of HENRY IV . 115.
... ; When your own Percy , when my heart - dear Harry , Threw many a northward look , to see his father Bring up his pow'rs ; but he did long in vain ! H 2 Who Who then perfuaded you to stay at home ? There The Second Part of HENRY IV . 115.
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