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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... piece , perhaps with the name of an Hercules , but , alas ! it was always Hercules fpinning that was fhewn to the fpectator . The editor of Corneille's works , in terms fo grofs as are hardly par- donable donable in fuch a master of ...
... piece , perhaps with the name of an Hercules , but , alas ! it was always Hercules fpinning that was fhewn to the fpectator . The editor of Corneille's works , in terms fo grofs as are hardly par- donable donable in fuch a master of ...
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... pieces : it must be owned , that in fome places they bear the marks of the unpolifhed times in which he wrote , but one cannot forbear fmil- ing to hear a critic , who profeffes himself an admirer of the tragedies of Corneille , object ...
... pieces : it must be owned , that in fome places they bear the marks of the unpolifhed times in which he wrote , but one cannot forbear fmil- ing to hear a critic , who profeffes himself an admirer of the tragedies of Corneille , object ...
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... piece , whom he defigned for a man , remains a cold inanimate ftatue ; which , moving on the wood and wire of the great mafters in the mechanical part of the drama , prefents to the spectators a kind of heroic puppet- fhew . As these pieces ...
... piece , whom he defigned for a man , remains a cold inanimate ftatue ; which , moving on the wood and wire of the great mafters in the mechanical part of the drama , prefents to the spectators a kind of heroic puppet- fhew . As these pieces ...
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... of our countryman in allowing them the credit of a few fplendid paffages , while he speaks of every entire piece as a monftrous and ill - constructed farce . farce . - Ridiculously has our poet , and ridi- 16 INTRODUCTION .
... of our countryman in allowing them the credit of a few fplendid paffages , while he speaks of every entire piece as a monftrous and ill - constructed farce . farce . - Ridiculously has our poet , and ridi- 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... 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 , Quam quæ funt oculis , subjecta fidelibus , et quæ Ipfe fibi tradit ...
... 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 , Quam quæ funt oculis , subjecta fidelibus , et quæ Ipfe fibi tradit ...
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