Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. VoltaireJ. Dodsley, 1769 - 288 pàgines |
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... state of Greece , whose various chiefs are thereby exhorted to unanimity ; the Odyffy , to the general con- dition of human nature ; but the epifodical part of his works he has enriched with mythology , phyfical allegory , the fine arts ...
... state of Greece , whose various chiefs are thereby exhorted to unanimity ; the Odyffy , to the general con- dition of human nature ; but the epifodical part of his works he has enriched with mythology , phyfical allegory , the fine arts ...
Pàgina 29
... state . An epic poem is too abstruse for the people ; the moral is too much enveloped , the language too elevated for their apprehenfion ; nor have they leifure , or application , to trace the confequences of ill governed paffions , or ...
... state . An epic poem is too abstruse for the people ; the moral is too much enveloped , the language too elevated for their apprehenfion ; nor have they leifure , or application , to trace the confequences of ill governed paffions , or ...
Pàgina 33
... state of the perfons in the drama . They affume the office of the fpectator by expreffing his , feelings , instead of conveying to us the ftrong emotions and fenfations of the perfons under C • under the preffure of diftrefs ...
... state of the perfons in the drama . They affume the office of the fpectator by expreffing his , feelings , instead of conveying to us the ftrong emotions and fenfations of the perfons under C • under the preffure of diftrefs ...
Pàgina 36
... ; As they had feen me with these hangman's hands , Liftening their fear . I could not say , Amen , When they did fay , God blefs us ! These Thefe expreffions open to us the internal state of the 36 On the DRAMA : or ,
... ; As they had feen me with these hangman's hands , Liftening their fear . I could not say , Amen , When they did fay , God blefs us ! These Thefe expreffions open to us the internal state of the 36 On the DRAMA : or ,
Pàgina 37
... state of the perfons interested , and never fail to command our fympathy . Shakespear feems to have had the art of the Dervife , in the Arabian tales , who could throw his foul into the body of another man , and be at once poffeffed of ...
... state of the perfons interested , and never fail to command our fympathy . Shakespear feems to have had the art of the Dervife , in the Arabian tales , who could throw his foul into the body of another man , and be at once poffeffed of ...
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1772 |
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1769 |
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek ... Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) Visualització completa - 1772 |
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