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 страница |
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... friends , others had gained esta- blishments and honours . All the inducements which the Greek tragedians had to chufe their heroes from the works of the poets , who had fung the wars of Troy , and the Argonautic expedi- tion , were ...
... friends , others had gained esta- blishments and honours . All the inducements which the Greek tragedians had to chufe their heroes from the works of the poets , who had fung the wars of Troy , and the Argonautic expedi- tion , were ...
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... friend . It is a pardonable violation of historical truth , to give the Prince of Wales , who behaved very gallantly at the battle of Shrewsbury , the honour of conquering him ; and it is more agreeable to the spectator , as the event ...
... friend . It is a pardonable violation of historical truth , to give the Prince of Wales , who behaved very gallantly at the battle of Shrewsbury , the honour of conquering him ; and it is more agreeable to the spectator , as the event ...
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... when he makes him , even in speaking to his friends and partisans , diffemble fo far , in relating Richard's prophecy , that Northumberland , H 2 who who helped him to the throne , would one day The Second Part of HENRY IV . 115.
... when he makes him , even in speaking to his friends and partisans , diffemble fo far , in relating Richard's prophecy , that Northumberland , H 2 who who helped him to the throne , would one day The Second Part of HENRY IV . 115.
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... perceived the decorum and fitnefs of making fo wife a man reserved even with his friends , and trust a confeffion of the iniquities , by which he obtained obtained the crown , only to his fucceffor , whose 116 The Second Part of HENRY IV .
... perceived the decorum and fitnefs of making fo wife a man reserved even with his friends , and trust a confeffion of the iniquities , by which he obtained obtained the crown , only to his fucceffor , whose 116 The Second Part of HENRY IV .
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... friends , and like a deep defigning hypocrite to his enemies , and pretends he is only acting as physician to the state . I have before obferved , that Shakespear had the talents of an Orator , as much as of a Poet ; and I believe it ...
... friends , and like a deep defigning hypocrite to his enemies , and pretends he is only acting as physician to the state . I have before obferved , that Shakespear had the talents of an Orator , as much as of a Poet ; and I believe it ...
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