| William Shakespeare - 1871 - 544 pàgines
...pomp of diction, and a wearisome train of circumlocution, &c. &c. His declamations or set speeches ks of thine Are counsellors to fear. 10 What soldiers, whey Mature ! when he endeavoured, like other tragic writers, to catch opportunities of amplification ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pàgines
...saying that " his tragedy was skill," he aflirms in the next page, " His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature: when he endeavoured, like other tragic writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pàgines
...it by brevity, endeavored to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature: when he endeavored.like other tragic writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pàgines
...be rapid, and enlivened by frequent interruption. Shakespeare found it an incumbrance, and instead of lightening it by brevity, endeavoured to recommend it by dignity and splendour. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pàgines
...brevity, endeavoured to recommend itL4" by dignity and splendour. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature ; wh^n_te_endfiaiEauiedi like other tragick writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pàgines
...it by brevity, endeavored to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature ; when he endeavored, like other tragic writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pàgines
...it by brevity, endeavoured to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the...writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply,... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pàgines
...be rapid, and enlivened by frequent interruption. Shakespeare found it an encumbrance, and instead of lightening it by brevity, endeavoured to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pàgines
...be rapid, and enlivened by frequent interruption. Shakespeare found it an encumbrance, and instead of lightening it by brevity, endeavoured to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pàgines
...by brevity, endeavored to recommend it by dignity and splendor. His declamations, or set speeches, are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature; when he en- 15 deavored, like other tragic writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and, instead of... | |
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