Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... perhaps are more willing to honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the ...
... perhaps are more willing to honour past than prefent excel- lence ; and the mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the ...
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... 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 fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
... 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 fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
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... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard , But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preserves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions ...
... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard , But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preserves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions ...
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... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to choose the best . In tragedy his performance feems constantly ...
... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to choose the best . In tragedy his performance feems constantly ...
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... perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the ftage ; but the general fyftem makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
... perhaps fome incidents that might be fpared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the ftage ; but the general fyftem makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
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Page 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...