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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... original writers , who , quitting the beaten track which others have travelled , make dar- ing incurfions into unexplored regions of in- vention , and boldly ftrike into the pathless fublime it is no wonder if they are often bewildered ...
... original writers , who , quitting the beaten track which others have travelled , make dar- ing incurfions into unexplored regions of in- vention , and boldly ftrike into the pathless fublime it is no wonder if they are often bewildered ...
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... original , with which the literati are feldom well ac- quainted . They perceive his portraits are not of the Grecian or of the Roman fchool : after finding them unlike to the celebrated forms preserved in learned museums they do not ...
... original , with which the literati are feldom well ac- quainted . They perceive his portraits are not of the Grecian or of the Roman fchool : after finding them unlike to the celebrated forms preserved in learned museums they do not ...
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... original graces , and even that neceffary qualification of all ornaments , fitnefs and propriety . A French tragedy is a tiffue of declamations , and fome laboured recitals of the catastrophe , by which the spirit of the drama is ...
... original graces , and even that neceffary qualification of all ornaments , fitnefs and propriety . A French tragedy is a tiffue of declamations , and fome laboured recitals of the catastrophe , by which the spirit of the drama is ...
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... 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 stage is fufpended . The pompous declamations of the French ...
... 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 stage is fufpended . The pompous declamations of the French ...
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... original kind and pe- culiar conftruction , cannot come within any rules which are prior to their existence . The office of the critic , in regard to poetry , is like that of the grammarian and rheto- rician in refpect to language : it ...
... original kind and pe- culiar conftruction , cannot come within any rules which are prior to their existence . The office of the critic , in regard to poetry , is like that of the grammarian and rheto- rician in refpect to language : it ...
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