The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volumes 1-2Collins & Hannay, 1826 |
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... truth which ought to be observed in this sort of writings ; yet he does it so very finely , that one is easi- ly drawn in to have more faith for his sake , than reason does well allow of . His magic has something in it very solemn , and ...
... truth which ought to be observed in this sort of writings ; yet he does it so very finely , that one is easi- ly drawn in to have more faith for his sake , than reason does well allow of . His magic has something in it very solemn , and ...
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... truth , I believe , might be , that he forbore doing it out of regard to Queen Elizabeth , since it could have been no very great respect to the memory of his mistress , to have exposed some certain parts of her father's life upon the ...
... truth , I believe , might be , that he forbore doing it out of regard to Queen Elizabeth , since it could have been no very great respect to the memory of his mistress , to have exposed some certain parts of her father's life upon the ...
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... truth of the story , she was killed by her own son ; but to represent an action of this kind on the stage , is certainly an offence against those rules of manners proper to the persons , that ought to be observed there . On the contrary ...
... truth of the story , she was killed by her own son ; but to represent an action of this kind on the stage , is certainly an offence against those rules of manners proper to the persons , that ought to be observed there . On the contrary ...
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... truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , be- ing forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the ...
... truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , be- ing forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the ...
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... truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all mo- dern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the customs of ...
... truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all mo- dern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the customs of ...
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