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 x
... rules , he has rarely been able to convey into it one spark of divine fire ; and the hero of his piece , whom he designed for a man , remains a cold inanimate statue ; which , moving on the wood and wire of the great masters in the ...
... rules , he has rarely been able to convey into it one spark of divine fire ; and the hero of his piece , whom he designed for a man , remains a cold inanimate statue ; which , moving on the wood and wire of the great masters in the ...
Pagina xi
... rules of Aristotle , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one country , who lived under those of another . -Heaven - born genius acts from something superior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and has a right of ap- peal to ...
... rules of Aristotle , which would be like trying a man by the laws of one country , who lived under those of another . -Heaven - born genius acts from something superior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and has a right of ap- peal to ...
Pagina xii
... rules of nice discretion . If perfect and faultless com- position is ever to be expected from human facul- ties , it must be at some happy period , when a noble and graceful simplicity , the result of well regulated and sober ...
... rules of nice discretion . If perfect and faultless com- position is ever to be expected from human facul- ties , it must be at some happy period , when a noble and graceful simplicity , the result of well regulated and sober ...
Pagina xiv
... rules of composition ; the feli- city , with which he performs what no rules can teach , teach , escapes him . Will an intelligent spec- tator xiv INTRODUCTION .
... rules of composition ; the feli- city , with which he performs what no rules can teach , teach , escapes him . Will an intelligent spec- tator xiv INTRODUCTION .
Pagina xxii
... bove the age and circumstances in which he was born , and who , even when he deviates most from rules , can rise to faults true critics dare not mend . mend . In delineating characters he must be al- lowed xxii INTRODUCTION .
... bove the age and circumstances in which he was born , and who , even when he deviates most from rules , can rise to faults true critics dare not mend . mend . In delineating characters he must be al- lowed xxii INTRODUCTION .
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