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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Pagina 48
... thought ! and more unlikely , Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns . Why , love forswore me in my mother's womb , And , for I should not deal in her soft laws , She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe To shrink my arm like to a ...
... thought ! and more unlikely , Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns . Why , love forswore me in my mother's womb , And , for I should not deal in her soft laws , She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe To shrink my arm like to a ...
Pagina 198
... thoughts , the style , and the judg- ment of Shakspeare , with the thoughts , the style , and the judgment of Corneille . It is difficult , perhaps impossible , to make the graces of style pass from one language to another ; and our ...
... thoughts , the style , and the judg- ment of Shakspeare , with the thoughts , the style , and the judgment of Corneille . It is difficult , perhaps impossible , to make the graces of style pass from one language to another ; and our ...
Pagina 262
... thought the veil of wisdom and know- ledge and that mist common to the morn and eve of literature , which in fact ... thoughts . Shak- speare is never more worthy of the true cri- tic's censure , than in those instances in which he ...
... thought the veil of wisdom and know- ledge and that mist common to the morn and eve of literature , which in fact ... thoughts . Shak- speare is never more worthy of the true cri- tic's censure , than in those instances in which he ...
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