An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; with Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireHarding, 1810 - 296 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... never was a more bar- barous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the last age , nor which , from its te- diousness , languor , and want of truth of cha- racter , is less fit to be copied on the stage : and what are most ...
... never was a more bar- barous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the last age , nor which , from its te- diousness , languor , and want of truth of cha- racter , is less fit to be copied on the stage : and what are most ...
Pagina 14
... the peculiar tenderness of maternal love , by answering , He speaks to me that never had a son . One might be made to conceive , in some degree , degree , the horrors of a murderer , under whose 14 ON DRAMATIC POETRY .
... the peculiar tenderness of maternal love , by answering , He speaks to me that never had a son . One might be made to conceive , in some degree , degree , the horrors of a murderer , under whose 14 ON DRAMATIC POETRY .
Pagina 15
... never fail to command our sympathy . Shakspeare seems to have had the art of the Dervise , in the Arabian Tales , who could throw his soul into the body of another man , and be at once possessed of his sentiments , adopt his passions ...
... never fail to command our sympathy . Shakspeare seems to have had the art of the Dervise , in the Arabian Tales , who could throw his soul into the body of another man , and be at once possessed of his sentiments , adopt his passions ...
Pagina 24
... never introduce a hero who had appeared in the Iliad or Odyssey , without a strict attention to make him act suitably to the opinion from those epic poems . the tragedy of Hecuba , conceived of him When Ulysses , in comes to demand ...
... never introduce a hero who had appeared in the Iliad or Odyssey , without a strict attention to make him act suitably to the opinion from those epic poems . the tragedy of Hecuba , conceived of him When Ulysses , in comes to demand ...
Pagina 56
... not , you elements , with unkindness , 1 I never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no submission . Then let fall Your Your horrible pleasure : here I stand your slave , 56 ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... not , you elements , with unkindness , 1 I never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no submission . Then let fall Your Your horrible pleasure : here I stand your slave , 56 ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA .
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