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... Plays Account of the Harleian Library Page 3 3L 68 - 77 - 141 171 · Effay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces 184 Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini View of the Controverfy between Croufaz and War- burton - 195 - 198 ...
... Plays Account of the Harleian Library Page 3 3L 68 - 77 - 141 171 · Effay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces 184 Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini View of the Controverfy between Croufaz and War- burton - 195 - 198 ...
Pagina 69
... played . They were immediately copied for the actors , and multiplied by transcript after transcript , vitiated by the blunders of the penman , or changed by the affectation of the player ; perhaps enlarged to introduce a jeft , or ...
... played . They were immediately copied for the actors , and multiplied by transcript after transcript , vitiated by the blunders of the penman , or changed by the affectation of the player ; perhaps enlarged to introduce a jeft , or ...
Pagina 78
... plays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man , as it is discovered in a long ...
... plays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man , as it is discovered in a long ...
Pagina 83
... play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and fpeak as the reader thinks that he should himself have fpoken or acted on the fame occasion : even where ...
... play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and fpeak as the reader thinks that he should himself have fpoken or acted on the fame occasion : even where ...
Pagina 84
... play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard ... plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions fitions ...
... play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard ... plays are not in the rigorous and cri- tical fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions fitions ...
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Pagina 138 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Pagina 83 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Pagina 109 - Shakespeare, however favoured by nature, could impart only what he had learned; and as he must increase his ideas, like other mortals, by gradual acquisition, he, like them, grew wiser as he grew older, could display life better, as he knew it more, and instruct with more efficacy, as he was himself more amply instructed.
Pagina 80 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Pagina 64 - I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Pagina 79 - The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
Pagina 22 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
Pagina 97 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Pagina 64 - If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.