The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rifhed ; his works fupport no opinion with arguments , nor fupply any faction with ...
... scenes which they once illuminated . The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has pe- rifhed ; his works fupport no opinion with arguments , nor fupply any faction with ...
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... co- mick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be firft ftated , and then examined , Shake Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical PREFACE .
... co- mick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all his works , deferves more confideration . Let the fact be firft ftated , and then examined , Shake Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical PREFACE .
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... scenes the paffions are interrupted in their progreffion , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at laft the power to move , which conftitutes the perfection of dramatick ...
... scenes the paffions are interrupted in their progreffion , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at laft the power to move , which conftitutes the perfection of dramatick ...
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... scenes there is always fomething wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expectation or defire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to ...
... scenes there is always fomething wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expectation or defire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to ...
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... scenes he is feldom very fuccessful , when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contefts of farcafm ; their jefts are com- monly gross , and their pleasantry licentious ; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have ...
... scenes he is feldom very fuccessful , when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contefts of farcafm ; their jefts are com- monly gross , and their pleasantry licentious ; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have ...
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