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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... plays are little more ) is no difficult matter ; for that is the easiest part of every art perhaps , but in poetry without difpute , in which the con- noiffeur can direct the artist . I do not believe the critic imagined that a mere ...
... plays are little more ) is no difficult matter ; for that is the easiest part of every art perhaps , but in poetry without difpute , in which the con- noiffeur can direct the artist . I do not believe the critic imagined that a mere ...
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... plays are written with the most noble , ele- gant , and uncorrupted fimplicity . Such is his merit , that the more juft and refined the tafte of the nation has become , the more he has encreafed in reputation . He was approved by his ...
... plays are written with the most noble , ele- gant , and uncorrupted fimplicity . Such is his merit , that the more juft and refined the tafte of the nation has become , the more he has encreafed in reputation . He was approved by his ...
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... : but we shall not do justice to his native talents , when they are the object of confideration , if we do not remember the different circumstances under which which these writers were compofed . Shake- fpear's plays were INTRODUCTION . 13.
... : but we shall not do justice to his native talents , when they are the object of confideration , if we do not remember the different circumstances under which which these writers were compofed . Shake- fpear's plays were INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... plays were to be acted in a paltry tavern , to an unlettered audience , juft emerging from barbarity : the Greek trage- dies were to be exhibited at the public charge , under the care and aufpices of the magistrates at Athens ; where ...
... plays were to be acted in a paltry tavern , to an unlettered audience , juft emerging from barbarity : the Greek trage- dies were to be exhibited at the public charge , under the care and aufpices of the magistrates at Athens ; where ...
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... will flourish 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.
... will flourish 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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