The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... perhaps are more willing to honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the ...
... perhaps are more willing to honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the ...
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... perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every speech may be affigned to the proper fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
... perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every speech may be affigned to the proper fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
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... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is represented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the essential character , is not very careful of distinctions ...
... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is represented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the essential character , is not very careful of distinctions ...
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... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to choose the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly ...
... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to choose the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly ...
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... perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
... perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
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