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 8
... virtue bold , Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold . He ascribes such power to a well - wrought scene , as to ask , When Cato groans , who does not wish to bleed ? He He would not have supposed the death of Hector , 8 ON ...
... virtue bold , Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold . He ascribes such power to a well - wrought scene , as to ask , When Cato groans , who does not wish to bleed ? He He would not have supposed the death of Hector , 8 ON ...
Pagina 10
... virtue , and divested her of whatsoever gives her a real interest in the human heart , require , we should adore her for the glitter of a few false brilliants , or the nice ar- rangement of frippery ornaments ? If she wears any thing of ...
... virtue , and divested her of whatsoever gives her a real interest in the human heart , require , we should adore her for the glitter of a few false brilliants , or the nice ar- rangement of frippery ornaments ? If she wears any thing of ...
Pagina 34
... Virtues and his Deities cannot extri- cate him : but here we are admonished to 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 ...
... Virtues and his Deities cannot extri- cate him : but here we are admonished to 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 ...
Pagina 35
... virtue , while he shews the miseries and calamities of vice . The common interests of humanity make us attentive to every story that has an air of reality , but we are more affected if we know it to be true ; and the interest is still ...
... virtue , while he shews the miseries and calamities of vice . The common interests of humanity make us attentive to every story that has an air of reality , but we are more affected if we know it to be true ; and the interest is still ...
Pagina 57
... virtue , That art incestuous ! Caitiff , shake to pieces , That under covert , and convenient seeming , Hast practis'd on man's life ! Close pent up guilts , Rive your concealing continents , and ask These dreadful summoners grace ! —I ...
... virtue , That art incestuous ! Caitiff , shake to pieces , That under covert , and convenient seeming , Hast practis'd on man's life ! Close pent up guilts , Rive your concealing continents , and ask These dreadful summoners grace ! —I ...
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