An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspeare, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltairePriestly, 1966 - 296 pagina's |
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... mind to heavenly contemplations , than to instruct it in human affairs . In Greece , the general mother of arts , arose the mighty genius of Homer ; of whom it may be said , as it is of Socrates with relation to philosophy , that he ...
... mind to heavenly contemplations , than to instruct it in human affairs . In Greece , the general mother of arts , arose the mighty genius of Homer ; of whom it may be said , as it is of Socrates with relation to philosophy , that he ...
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... mind , between the original and the copy before us . But here the art and the artist must not appear ; for , as often as we recur to the Poet , so often our sympathy with the action on the stage is suspended . The pompous declamations ...
... mind , between the original and the copy before us . But here the art and the artist must not appear ; for , as often as we recur to the Poet , so often our sympathy with the action on the stage is suspended . The pompous declamations ...
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... mind , and the terrors they could inflict on criminal conscience , when they were represented as obliged to have recourse to the ordinary method of revenge , by being witnesses and pleaders in a court of justice , to obtain the corporal ...
... mind , and the terrors they could inflict on criminal conscience , when they were represented as obliged to have recourse to the ordinary method of revenge , by being witnesses and pleaders in a court of justice , to obtain the corporal ...
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