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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... Brutus damoret . The Horatii are represented no less obse- quious in their address to their king than the courtiers of the grand monarque . Thefeus is made a mere fighing fwain . Many of the greatest men of antiquity , and even the ...
... Brutus damoret . The Horatii are represented no less obse- quious in their address to their king than the courtiers of the grand monarque . Thefeus is made a mere fighing fwain . Many of the greatest men of antiquity , and even the ...
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... Brutus as an affaffin , who by this artifice appears a tyrannicide : and had not Mr. Addifon made Cato a patriot , according to the Roman mode , we fhould think he was mad for killing himself be- caufe Cæfar was likely to become ...
... Brutus as an affaffin , who by this artifice appears a tyrannicide : and had not Mr. Addifon made Cato a patriot , according to the Roman mode , we fhould think he was mad for killing himself be- caufe Cæfar was likely to become ...
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... Brutus replies to Caffius's propofal to kill Cæfar ; BRUTUS . Our course will seem too bloody , Caius Caffius , To cut the head off , and then hack the limbs . Like wrath in death , and envy afterwards : For Antony is but a limb of ...
... Brutus replies to Caffius's propofal to kill Cæfar ; BRUTUS . Our course will seem too bloody , Caius Caffius , To cut the head off , and then hack the limbs . Like wrath in death , and envy afterwards : For Antony is but a limb of ...
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... Brutus , in his foliloquy meditating on what Caffius had been urging concerning Cæfar , thus expreffes his apprehenfion , that imperial power may change the conduct of the man . BRUTUS . ' Tis a common proof , That lowliness is young ...
... Brutus , in his foliloquy meditating on what Caffius had been urging concerning Cæfar , thus expreffes his apprehenfion , that imperial power may change the conduct of the man . BRUTUS . ' Tis a common proof , That lowliness is young ...
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... BRUTUS . On fait affez quelle est l'ambition . L'échelle des grandeurs à fes yeux se préfente ; Elle y monte en cachant fon front aux fpectateurs ; Et quand elle eft haut , alors elle se montre ; Alors jufques au ciel élevant fes ...
... BRUTUS . On fait affez quelle est l'ambition . L'échelle des grandeurs à fes yeux se préfente ; Elle y monte en cachant fon front aux fpectateurs ; Et quand elle eft haut , alors elle se montre ; Alors jufques au ciel élevant fes ...
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