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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... unwithered and inviolate round his tomb ; and his very spirit feems to come forth and to animate his characters , as often as Mr. Garrick , which these writers were compofed . Shake- fpear's plays were INTRODUCTION . 15.
... unwithered and inviolate round his tomb ; and his very spirit feems to come forth and to animate his characters , as often as Mr. Garrick , which these writers were compofed . Shake- fpear's plays were INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... will flourish unwithered and inviolate round his tomb ; and his very spirit seems to come forth and to animate his characters , as often as Mr. Garrick , Garrick , who acts with the fame inspiration with which INTRODUCTION . 15.
... will flourish unwithered and inviolate round his tomb ; and his very spirit seems to come forth and to animate his characters , as often as Mr. Garrick , Garrick , who acts with the fame inspiration with which INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... spirit of the drama is greatly weakened and enervated , and the theatrical piece is deprived of that peculiar influence over the mind , which it derives from the vivid force of reprefentation . Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aurem ...
... spirit of the drama is greatly weakened and enervated , and the theatrical piece is deprived of that peculiar influence over the mind , which it derives from the vivid force of reprefentation . Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aurem ...
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... spirit of criticism should controul us in the use of any of them . Those which we should have judged most barren , have brought forth noble productions , when cultivated by an able hand . Even fairy land has produced the fub- lime ; and ...
... spirit of criticism should controul us in the use of any of them . Those which we should have judged most barren , have brought forth noble productions , when cultivated by an able hand . Even fairy land has produced the fub- lime ; and ...
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... spirit of liberty , and delighted in painting popular tumults , the progrefs of civil wars , and the revolutions of government , rather than a catastrophe within the walls of a palace . At the time he wrote , the wars of the Houses of ...
... spirit of liberty , and delighted in painting popular tumults , the progrefs of civil wars , and the revolutions of government , rather than a catastrophe within the walls of a palace . At the time he wrote , the wars of the Houses of ...
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