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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... itself rules of nice difcretion . If perfect and faultless compofition is ever to be expected from human faculties , it must be at fome happy period when a noble and graceful fimplicity , the refult of well regulated and fober ...
... itself rules of nice difcretion . If perfect and faultless compofition is ever to be expected from human faculties , it must be at fome happy period when a noble and graceful fimplicity , the refult of well regulated and fober ...
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... itself . The epic is also an imitation of the actions of men , but it imitates by narration . The most perfect , and the best imitation , is cer- tainly that which gives the most adequate , lively , Arift . Poet , C. 1. Chap . 3 ...
... itself . The epic is also an imitation of the actions of men , but it imitates by narration . The most perfect , and the best imitation , is cer- tainly that which gives the most adequate , lively , Arift . Poet , C. 1. Chap . 3 ...
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... through which it opens to itself a communication to the heart , where it is to excite certain paffions and affections : each character being perfó- perfonated , and each event exhibited , the attention of On DRAMATIC POETRY . 29.
... through which it opens to itself a communication to the heart , where it is to excite certain paffions and affections : each character being perfó- perfonated , and each event exhibited , the attention of On DRAMATIC POETRY . 29.
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... itself ; and in a comparison , drawn by the mind , between the original and the copy before us . But here the art and the artist must not appear ; for , as often as we recur to the poet , fo often our fympathy with the action on the ...
... itself ; and in a comparison , drawn by the mind , between the original and the copy before us . But here the art and the artist must not appear ; for , as often as we recur to the poet , fo often our fympathy with the action on the ...
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... itself again in it , and remains not , as in other writers , an ambi- tious ornament glittering alone , but is fo connected as to be an useful paffage very naturally united with the ftory . The in- stances of this are fo frequent as to ...
... itself again in it , and remains not , as in other writers , an ambi- tious ornament glittering alone , but is fo connected as to be an useful paffage very naturally united with the ftory . The in- stances of this are fo frequent as to ...
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