An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic PoetsR. Priestley, 1966 - 296 pagina's |
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Pagina 45
... Greek tragedians had to chuse their heroes from the works of the poets , who had sung the wars of Troy , and the Argonautic expedi- tion , were still in greater force with our countryman to take his subjects from the history and ...
... Greek tragedians had to chuse their heroes from the works of the poets , who had sung the wars of Troy , and the Argonautic expedi- tion , were still in greater force with our countryman to take his subjects from the history and ...
Pagina 166
... Greek and French writers represent . Here then is added to the drama an imitation of the most difficult and delicate kind , that of representing the inter- nal process of the mind in reasoning and re- flecting ; and it is not only a ...
... Greek and French writers represent . Here then is added to the drama an imitation of the most difficult and delicate kind , that of representing the inter- nal process of the mind in reasoning and re- flecting ; and it is not only a ...
Pagina 286
... Greek , another with the Roman virtue : but our men of the world should read our new books , which teach them to have no virtue at all . No book is fit for a gentleman's reading , which is not void of facts and of doctrines , that he ...
... Greek , another with the Roman virtue : but our men of the world should read our new books , which teach them to have no virtue at all . No book is fit for a gentleman's reading , which is not void of facts and of doctrines , that he ...
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Upon the Death of Julius Cæsar | 223 |
Dialogue I | 267 |
Dialogue II | 276 |
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