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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... spectator at the theatre at Lon- don , it is probable he has heard the tragic mufe as she spoke at Athens , and as she now speaks at Paris , or in Italy ; and he can difcern between the natural language in which the addreffed the human ...
... spectator at the theatre at Lon- don , it is probable he has heard the tragic mufe as she spoke at Athens , and as she now speaks at Paris , or in Italy ; and he can difcern between the natural language in which the addreffed the human ...
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... spectators a kind of heroic puppet- fhew . As these pieces take their rise in the school of criticism , they return thither again , and are as good fubjects for the ftudents in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in phyfic ...
... spectators a kind of heroic puppet- fhew . As these pieces take their rise in the school of criticism , they return thither again , and are as good fubjects for the ftudents in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in phyfic ...
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... spectator . The business of the drama is to excite fym- fympathy ; and its effect on the spectator depends on 32 On the DRAMA : ōr ,
... spectator . The business of the drama is to excite fym- fympathy ; and its effect on the spectator depends on 32 On the DRAMA : ōr ,
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... spectator depends on fuch a juftness of imitation , as fhall cause , to a certain degree , the fame paffions and affections , as if what was ex- hibited was real . We have observed narra- tive imitation to be too faint and feeble a ...
... spectator depends on fuch a juftness of imitation , as fhall cause , to a certain degree , the fame paffions and affections , as if what was ex- hibited was real . We have observed narra- tive imitation to be too faint and feeble a ...
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... spectator , we may make fome conjecture of his internal ftate of mind , and so far we fhall be moved : but the direct and imme- diate way to the heart is by the sufferer's ex- preffion of his paffion . As there may be fome obfcurity in ...
... spectator , we may make fome conjecture of his internal ftate of mind , and so far we fhall be moved : but the direct and imme- diate way to the heart is by the sufferer's ex- preffion of his paffion . As there may be fome obfcurity in ...
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