The Plays of William Shakespeare, Band 1A. Leathley, 1766 |
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... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an authour is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an authour is ...
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... mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is ...
... mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is ...
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... minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing co- mick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all ...
... minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing co- mick and tragick scenes , as it extends to all ...
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... mind but in one compo- fition . Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolu- tions of the defign , fometimes produce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
... mind but in one compo- fition . Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolu- tions of the defign , fometimes produce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
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... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at ano- ther . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dia- logue , he ...
... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at ano- ther . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dia- logue , he ...
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