The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1793 |
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... spirit of liberty in many parts of the world ; and fuch an uncommon one in fome of the Spanish dominions in America , as is not , perhaps , to be equalled in any annals , fince it has engaged thofe whom it actuates to give up , in ...
... spirit of liberty in many parts of the world ; and fuch an uncommon one in fome of the Spanish dominions in America , as is not , perhaps , to be equalled in any annals , fince it has engaged thofe whom it actuates to give up , in ...
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... Spirit to the mother- country . Opinion of a great minifter . concerning the expediency of the · British parliament's taxing the colonies . and undreffed flax from the Ame- rican colonies in Great. HOUGH , therefore , that which we have ...
... Spirit to the mother- country . Opinion of a great minifter . concerning the expediency of the · British parliament's taxing the colonies . and undreffed flax from the Ame- rican colonies in Great. HOUGH , therefore , that which we have ...
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... spirit of idleness and profufe- nefs . The moft fubftantial and even fashionable people were fore- moft in fettin g the example to their countrymen , by contenting themfelves with home - fpun or old cloaths , rather than make use of any ...
... spirit of idleness and profufe- nefs . The moft fubftantial and even fashionable people were fore- moft in fettin g the example to their countrymen , by contenting themfelves with home - fpun or old cloaths , rather than make use of any ...
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... spirit of agriculture begins to break out in Spain . A fociety for the improvement of it has been lately established at Corunna , and met , for the first time , on the zoth of January laft . The whole number of perfons , who died laft ...
... spirit of agriculture begins to break out in Spain . A fociety for the improvement of it has been lately established at Corunna , and met , for the first time , on the zoth of January laft . The whole number of perfons , who died laft ...
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... Spirit ; and find abundant caufe every day to exalt the Lord , abafe flesh . And herein I have fome exercife . - As to outward difpenfations , if we may fo call them , we have not been without our fhare of be holding fome remarkable ...
... Spirit ; and find abundant caufe every day to exalt the Lord , abafe flesh . And herein I have fome exercife . - As to outward difpenfations , if we may fo call them , we have not been without our fhare of be holding fome remarkable ...
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Page 313 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Page 261 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 315 - That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed, but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
Page 314 - Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful: the event which he represents will not happen; but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned...
Page 233 - ... makes gradual advances, and the end of the play is the end of expectation. To the unities of time and place...
Page 234 - He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium.
Page 317 - ... his disposition, as Rhymer has remarked, led him to comedy. In tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study, what is written at last with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes, he seems to produce without labour, what no labour can improve.
Page 317 - In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick, but in comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
Page 316 - That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied, because it includes both in its...
Page 233 - Medea could in so short a time have transported him; he knows with certainty that he has not changed his place; and he knows that place cannot change itself: that what was a house cannot become a plain, that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis.