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 11
... observed narra- tive imitation to be too faint and feeble a means to excite passion : declamation , still worse , plays idly on the surface of the subject , and makes the poet , who should be concealed in the action , visible to the ...
... observed narra- tive imitation to be too faint and feeble a means to excite passion : declamation , still worse , plays idly on the surface of the subject , and makes the poet , who should be concealed in the action , visible to the ...
Pagina 34
... observe the effects of pride and ambi- tion , the tyrant's dangers and the traitor's fate . The sentiments and the manners , the passions and their consequences , are fully fully set before you ; the force and lustre of 34 ON THE ...
... observe the effects of pride and ambi- tion , the tyrant's dangers and the traitor's fate . The sentiments and the manners , the passions and their consequences , are fully fully set before you ; the force and lustre of 34 ON THE ...
Pagina 38
... observations from the cha- racters in action ; which every reader of pe- netration will find the invariable practice of our author : and when he introduces a general maxim , it seems drawn from him by the occasion . As it arises out of ...
... observations from the cha- racters in action ; which every reader of pe- netration will find the invariable practice of our author : and when he introduces a general maxim , it seems drawn from him by the occasion . As it arises out of ...
Pagina 55
... observe , that though crowded too much , they are not so perplexed as to be unintelligible , which Corneille confesses his Clitandre might be to those who saw it but once . There is still another more essential difference per- haps ...
... observe , that though crowded too much , they are not so perplexed as to be unintelligible , which Corneille confesses his Clitandre might be to those who saw it but once . There is still another more essential difference per- haps ...
Pagina 65
... observed how poorly Corneille has represented characters borrowed from so great a portrait - painter as Tacitus , let us now see what Shakspeare has done , from those awkward originals , our old chro- nicles . F THE THE FIRST PART OF ...
... observed how poorly Corneille has represented characters borrowed from so great a portrait - painter as Tacitus , let us now see what Shakspeare has done , from those awkward originals , our old chro- nicles . F THE THE FIRST PART OF ...
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