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 страница |
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... never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the laft age , nor which from its tediousness , languor , and want of truth of character , is lefs fit to be copied on the stage : and what are most parts of ...
... never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the laft age , nor which from its tediousness , languor , and want of truth of character , is lefs fit to be copied on the stage : and what are most parts of ...
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... never had a fon . One might be made to conceive , in fome degree , the horrors of a murderer , under whose knife the bleeding victim is expiring in agonies , by a description of the unhappy object ; but how fully , and how forcibly is ...
... never had a fon . One might be made to conceive , in fome degree , the horrors of a murderer , under whose knife the bleeding victim is expiring in agonies , by a description of the unhappy object ; but how fully , and how forcibly is ...
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... 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 another man , and be at once poffeffed of his fentiments , adopt his paffions ...
... 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 another man , and be at once poffeffed of his fentiments , adopt his paffions ...
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... never introduce a hero who had appeared in the Iliad or Odyffey , without a ftrict attention to make him act fuitably to the opinion conceived of him from those epic Poems . When Ulyffes , in the tragedy of Hecuba , comes to demand ...
... never introduce a hero who had appeared in the Iliad or Odyffey , without a ftrict attention to make him act fuitably to the opinion conceived of him from those epic Poems . When Ulyffes , in the tragedy of Hecuba , comes to demand ...
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... never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no fubmiffion . Then let fall Your horrible pleafure ; here I ftand your flave , A poor , infirm , weak , and defpis'd old man ! And yet I call you fervile minifters , That have ...
... never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no fubmiffion . Then let fall Your horrible pleafure ; here I ftand your flave , A poor , infirm , weak , and defpis'd old man ! And yet I call you fervile minifters , That have ...
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