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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... 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 acknowledge in these editors ...
... 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 acknowledge in these editors ...
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... opinion of the extravagance , and total want of defign in Shakespear's dramas . With the more learned , deep , and fober critics , however , he lies under one confiderable disadvantage . For copying nature , as he found it , in the busy ...
... opinion of the extravagance , and total want of defign in Shakespear's dramas . With the more learned , deep , and fober critics , however , he lies under one confiderable disadvantage . For copying nature , as he found it , in the busy ...
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... opinion , the poets of those times had of the ignorance of the people , than the condefcenfion fhewn to it by the learned Earl of Dorfet , in his tragedy of Gorboduc ; in which the moral of each act is reprefented on the stage in dumb ...
... opinion , the poets of those times had of the ignorance of the people , than the condefcenfion fhewn to it by the learned Earl of Dorfet , in his tragedy of Gorboduc ; in which the moral of each act is reprefented on the stage in dumb ...
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... opinion , that none of his pieces was composed with more art ; fo little was the dramatic art un- derstood in the polite court of Louis XIV . The Edipus of Corneille is so far below cri- ticism , that I fhould not have taken any no ...
... opinion , that none of his pieces was composed with more art ; fo little was the dramatic art un- derstood in the polite court of Louis XIV . The Edipus of Corneille is so far below cri- ticism , that I fhould not have taken any no ...
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... opinion conceived of him from those epic Poems . When Ulyffes , in the tragedy of Hecuba , comes to demand Polixena to be facrificed , how admirably is his conduct fuited to our conceptions of him ! He is cold , prudent , deaf to pity ...
... opinion conceived of him from those epic Poems . When Ulyffes , in the tragedy of Hecuba , comes to demand Polixena to be facrificed , how admirably is his conduct fuited to our conceptions of him ! He is cold , prudent , deaf to pity ...
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