An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireH. Hughs, 1772 - 288 pàgines |
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... thefe views , then , our author is to be examined . First , whether his Fables answer the nobleft end of Fable , moral inftruction ; next , whether his dra- matic imitation has its proper dramatic excel- lence . In the latter of these ...
... thefe views , then , our author is to be examined . First , whether his Fables answer the nobleft end of Fable , moral inftruction ; next , whether his dra- matic imitation has its proper dramatic excel- lence . In the latter of these ...
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... thefe have been restored by critics , whofe learning and penetration have traced back the veftiges of fuperannuated opinions and customs . They are now no longer in danger of being effaced , and the testimony of these learned ...
... thefe have been restored by critics , whofe learning and penetration have traced back the veftiges of fuperannuated opinions and customs . They are now no longer in danger of being effaced , and the testimony of these learned ...
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... thefe great purposes were tuned the harps of Orpheus , Mufæus , Hefiod , Callimachus , & c . Nor in Greece alone was Poetry the teacher , and the guardian , of the fanctities of human fociety . + Our Northern bards affum- ed the fame ...
... thefe great purposes were tuned the harps of Orpheus , Mufæus , Hefiod , Callimachus , & c . Nor in Greece alone was Poetry the teacher , and the guardian , of the fanctities of human fociety . + Our Northern bards affum- ed the fame ...
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... ! the other ; As they had feen me with thefe hangman's hands , Listening their fear . I could not fay , Amen , When they did fay , God blefs us ! Thefe Thefe expreffions open to us the internal ftate of the 36 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
... ! the other ; As they had feen me with thefe hangman's hands , Listening their fear . I could not fay , Amen , When they did fay , God blefs us ! Thefe Thefe expreffions open to us the internal ftate of the 36 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
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... Thefe expreffions open to us the internal ftate of the perfons interested , and never fail to command our sympathy . Shakespear feems to have had the art of the Dervife , in the Arabian tales , who could throw his foul into the body of ...
... Thefe expreffions open to us the internal ftate of the perfons interested , and never fail to command our sympathy . Shakespear feems to have had the art of the Dervife , in the Arabian tales , who could throw his foul into the body of ...
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