The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steevens's Last Edition with a Selection of the Most Important Notes, Volume 1T. Longman, 1797 |
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Page xxii
... those things I have been pleased with in looking him over . gene- His plays are properly to be diftinguished only into comedies and tragedies . Those which are called histories , and even fome of his comedies , are really tragedies ...
... those things I have been pleased with in looking him over . gene- His plays are properly to be diftinguished only into comedies and tragedies . Those which are called histories , and even fome of his comedies , are really tragedies ...
Page xxvi
... those rules which are established by Ariftotle , and taken from the model of the Grecian ftage , it would be no very hard task to find a great many faults ; but as Shakspeare lived under a kind of mere light of nature , and had never ...
... those rules which are established by Ariftotle , and taken from the model of the Grecian ftage , it would be no very hard task to find a great many faults ; but as Shakspeare lived under a kind of mere light of nature , and had never ...
Page xxvii
... those plays which he has taken from the English or Roman hiftory , let any man compare them , and he will find the character as exact in the poet as the hiftorian . He seems indeed fo far from propofing to himself any one action for a ...
... those plays which he has taken from the English or Roman hiftory , let any man compare them , and he will find the character as exact in the poet as the hiftorian . He seems indeed fo far from propofing to himself any one action for a ...
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... those rules of manners proper to the perfons , that ought to be obferved there . On the contrary , let us only look a little on the conduct of Shakspeare . Hamlet is reprefented with the fame piety towards his father , and refolution to ...
... those rules of manners proper to the perfons , that ought to be obferved there . On the contrary , let us only look a little on the conduct of Shakspeare . Hamlet is reprefented with the fame piety towards his father , and refolution to ...
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... those who , if he found himself diftreffed , could not fail to afford him fuch fupplies as would have fet him above the neceffity of holding borfes for fubfiftence . Mr. Malone has remarked in his Attempt to fcertain the Order in which ...
... those who , if he found himself diftreffed , could not fail to afford him fuch fupplies as would have fet him above the neceffity of holding borfes for fubfiftence . Mr. Malone has remarked in his Attempt to fcertain the Order in which ...
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