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intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after nation , and century after century , has been able to do little more than tranfpofe his incidents , new name his characters , and paraphrafe his fentiments .
intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after nation , and century after century , has been able to do little more than tranfpofe his incidents , new name his characters , and paraphrafe his fentiments .
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... is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the cuftoms of particular places ...
... is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the cuftoms of particular places ...
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In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . Vect It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills the ...
In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . Vect It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills the ...
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theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peopled by fuch characters as were never seen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind .
theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peopled by fuch characters as were never seen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind .
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Characters thus ample and general were not eafily discriminated and preferved , yet perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every fpeech may be affigned to the proper ...
Characters thus ample and general were not eafily discriminated and preferved , yet perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every fpeech may be affigned to the proper ...
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| Titel | The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Band 1 The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Autor/in | William Shakespeare |
| Herausgeber | Samuel Johnson |
| Illustriert von | George Vertue |
| Mitwirkende | Henry Woodfall, John Rivington, J. and R. Tonson |
| Verlag | J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 8. Aug. 2008 |
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