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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... thofe poets who fuppofe their dramas will be excellent if they are regulated by Ariftotle's clock . To bring within a limited time and an affigned space certain series of conversations ( and French plays are little more ) is no ...
... thofe poets who fuppofe their dramas will be excellent if they are regulated by Ariftotle's clock . To bring within a limited time and an affigned space certain series of conversations ( and French plays are little more ) is no ...
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... , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one coun- try , who lived under thofe of another . Heaven - born genius acts from fomething A 4 fuperior fuperior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and INTRODUCTION .
... , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one coun- try , who lived under thofe of another . Heaven - born genius acts from fomething A 4 fuperior fuperior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and INTRODUCTION .
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... thofe palpable allegories by which rude unlettered moralifts inftruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion the poets of thofe times had of the ignorance of the people , than the ...
... thofe palpable allegories by which rude unlettered moralifts inftruct and please the grofs and ignorant multitude . Nothing can more plainly evince the opinion the poets of thofe times had of the ignorance of the people , than the ...
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... thofe prescribed in any art of poetry . While we feel the power and energy of his predominant genius , fhall we not be apt to treat the cold formal precepts of the critic , with the fame peevish contempt that the good lady in the ...
... thofe prescribed in any art of poetry . While we feel the power and energy of his predominant genius , fhall we not be apt to treat the cold formal precepts of the critic , with the fame peevish contempt that the good lady in the ...
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... thofe times , Mr. Voltaire has endeavoured to convince his countrymen , that the metaphyfics of love , and the fophiftry of politics , are not adapted to the theatre : but he durft not bring the ftory of Edipus on the ftage without fome ...
... thofe times , Mr. Voltaire has endeavoured to convince his countrymen , that the metaphyfics of love , and the fophiftry of politics , are not adapted to the theatre : but he durft not bring the ftory of Edipus on the ftage without fome ...
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