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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... turn thither again , and are as good subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute- ly too have they been anatomised in learned academies : but works , animated by Genius , will not ...
... turn thither again , and are as good subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute- ly too have they been anatomised in learned academies : but works , animated by Genius , will not ...
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... the great ; the warnings to the people ; all high and public precepts are neglected ; and by making the intereft of the play turn- * Defence of Poefy . upon every upon the paffion of Love , to which the 44 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
... the great ; the warnings to the people ; all high and public precepts are neglected ; and by making the intereft of the play turn- * Defence of Poefy . upon every upon the paffion of Love , to which the 44 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
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... turn of mind , con- fiders them , not as prefaging , but as in- ftigating his cruel ambition , and finely accounts in the following speeches for the afperity of his temper , and his fierce and unmitigated defire of dominion , from his ...
... turn of mind , con- fiders them , not as prefaging , but as in- ftigating his cruel ambition , and finely accounts in the following speeches for the afperity of his temper , and his fierce and unmitigated defire of dominion , from his ...
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... turns the great intereft of the play . By the laws of romance the men are to be amorous , and the ladies ambitious . Poor Sertorius in his old age is in love with this lady , for whom Perpenna is also dying ; and Sertorius , whom we had ...
... turns the great intereft of the play . By the laws of romance the men are to be amorous , and the ladies ambitious . Poor Sertorius in his old age is in love with this lady , for whom Perpenna is also dying ; and Sertorius , whom we had ...
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... turn diftorts , wit , and though it gives it a burlesque air , which excites momentary mirth , renders it lefs juft , and confequently lefs agreeable to our judgments . Gluttony , corpulency , and cowardice , are the peculiarities of ...
... turn diftorts , wit , and though it gives it a burlesque air , which excites momentary mirth , renders it lefs juft , and confequently lefs agreeable to our judgments . Gluttony , corpulency , and cowardice , are the peculiarities of ...
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