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 pàgines |
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... criticism . Animated by an opinion of fuch authority , fome of the most learned and ingenious of our critics have made correct editions of his works , and enriched them with notes . The fuperiority of talents and learning , which I ...
... criticism . Animated by an opinion of fuch authority , fome of the most learned and ingenious of our critics have made correct editions of his works , and enriched them with notes . The fuperiority of talents and learning , which I ...
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... critic , and a great poet of a neighbouring nation , treated as the writer of monftrous farces , called by him tragedies ; and barbarifm and ignorance are attributed to the nation by which he is ad- mired . Yet if wits , poets , critics ...
... critic , and a great poet of a neighbouring nation , treated as the writer of monftrous farces , called by him tragedies ; and barbarifm and ignorance are attributed to the nation by which he is ad- mired . Yet if wits , poets , critics ...
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... critic Boileau to their dramatic writers in the following lines : Gardez donc de donner , ainfi que dans Clélie , L'air ni l'efprit Francois á l'antique Italie ; Et fous des noms Romains faiffant notre portrait , Peindre Caton galant ...
... critic Boileau to their dramatic writers in the following lines : Gardez donc de donner , ainfi que dans Clélie , L'air ni l'efprit Francois á l'antique Italie ; Et fous des noms Romains faiffant notre portrait , Peindre Caton galant ...
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... critic , who profeffes himself an admirer of the tragedies of Corneille , object to the barbarism of Shakespear's . There never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the last age , nor which from its ...
... critic , who profeffes himself an admirer of the tragedies of Corneille , object to the barbarism of Shakespear's . There never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the last age , nor which from its ...
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... critic imagined that a mere obedience to his laws of drama would make a good tragedy , tho ' it might prevent a poet more bold than judicious , from writ- ing a very abfurd one . A painter can define the just proportion of the human ...
... critic imagined that a mere obedience to his laws of drama would make a good tragedy , tho ' it might prevent a poet more bold than judicious , from writ- ing a very abfurd one . A painter can define the just proportion of the human ...
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1772 |
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1769 |
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1772 |
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