The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and ReedT. Nelson and Sons, 1855 - 964 pages |
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Page v
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
Page vi
... mind is softened at one its natural power upon kings . These are the petty cavils ofime , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his pur- petty minds ; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a ...
... mind is softened at one its natural power upon kings . These are the petty cavils ofime , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his pur- petty minds ; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a ...
Page vii
... mind , are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity . A quibble is , to Shakspeare , what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way , and sure to engulf him in the ...
... mind , are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity . A quibble is , to Shakspeare , what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way , and sure to engulf him in the ...
Page viii
... mind revolts from evident falsehood , and fiction loses its force when it de- parts from the resemblance of reality . From the narrow limitation of time necessarily arises the contraction of place . The spectator , who knows that he saw ...
... mind revolts from evident falsehood , and fiction loses its force when it de- parts from the resemblance of reality . From the narrow limitation of time necessarily arises the contraction of place . The spectator , who knows that he saw ...
Page ix
... mind , which has feasted on the luxurious wonders of fiction , has no taste of the insipidity of truth . A play which imitated only the common occurrences of the world , would , upon the admirers of Palmerin and Guy of Warwick , have ...
... mind , which has feasted on the luxurious wonders of fiction , has no taste of the insipidity of truth . A play which imitated only the common occurrences of the world , would , upon the admirers of Palmerin and Guy of Warwick , have ...
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