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 VoltaireCharles Dilly, 1785 - 316 pàgines |
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... object to the barbarifm 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 tediousness , languor , and want of truth of character , is lefs fit to be ...
... object to the barbarifm 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 tediousness , languor , and want of truth of character , is lefs fit to be ...
Pàgina 13
... object of confideration , if we do not re- member the different circumftances under which these writings were compofed . Shake- fpear's plays were to be acted in a paltry ta- vern , to an unlettered audience , just emerg- ing from ...
... object of confideration , if we do not re- member the different circumftances under which these writings were compofed . Shake- fpear's plays were to be acted in a paltry ta- vern , to an unlettered audience , just emerg- ing from ...
Pàgina 24
... object of Poetry , among the ancients , was the inftruction of mankind , in religion , morals , philofophy , & c . To thefe great purposes were tuned the harps of Orpheus , Mufæus , Hefiod , Callimachus , & c . Nor in Greece alone was ...
... object of Poetry , among the ancients , was the inftruction of mankind , in religion , morals , philofophy , & c . To thefe great purposes were tuned the harps of Orpheus , Mufæus , Hefiod , Callimachus , & c . Nor in Greece alone was ...
Pàgina 26
... by the means of pity and terror * . The object of the epic Poem is to infpire magnanimity ; to give good documents of life ; to induce → Chap . 6 . good good habits * ; and , like a wholesome re- 26 On DRAMATIC POETRY ,
... by the means of pity and terror * . The object of the epic Poem is to infpire magnanimity ; to give good documents of life ; to induce → Chap . 6 . good good habits * ; and , like a wholesome re- 26 On DRAMATIC POETRY ,
Pàgina 35
... object ; but how fully , and how forcibly is the consciousness of guilt expreffed by Macbeth , when , speaking of the grooms who lay near Duncan , he says , MACBETH . One cry'd , God blefs us ! and Amen ! the other ; As they had feen me ...
... object ; but how fully , and how forcibly is the consciousness of guilt expreffed by Macbeth , when , speaking of the grooms who lay near Duncan , he says , MACBETH . One cry'd , God blefs us ! and Amen ! the other ; As they had feen me ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 248 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Pàgina 266 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Pàgina 182 - But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pàgina 266 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Pàgina 261 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Pàgina 262 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Pàgina 183 - And, — pr'ythee, lead me in : There, take an inventory of all I have ; To the last penny, 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell ! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Pàgina 262 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.
Pàgina 187 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Pàgina 189 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...