The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1Rwington, 1821 |
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... novel as they found it , no less implicitly than if it had been true history . To judge therefore of Shakspeare by Aristotle's rules , is like trying a man by the laws of one country , who acted under those of another . He writ to the ...
... novel as they found it , no less implicitly than if it had been true history . To judge therefore of Shakspeare by Aristotle's rules , is like trying a man by the laws of one country , who acted under those of another . He writ to the ...
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... novels he was manifestly ac- quainted with ; and we may conclude him to be no less conversant with the ancients of his own country , from the use he has made of Chaucer in Troilus and Cressida , and in The Two Noble Kinsmen , if that ...
... novels he was manifestly ac- quainted with ; and we may conclude him to be no less conversant with the ancients of his own country , from the use he has made of Chaucer in Troilus and Cressida , and in The Two Noble Kinsmen , if that ...
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... novels ; and it is reasonable to suppose , that he chose the most popular , such as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the ...
... novels ; and it is reasonable to suppose , that he chose the most popular , such as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the ...
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... novel or a poem ; and to put some few fragments of it , with which his memory furnish'd him , into the mouth of a pedant , or fine gentleman . How or when he acquir'd it we must be content to be igno- rant , but of the French language ...
... novel or a poem ; and to put some few fragments of it , with which his memory furnish'd him , into the mouth of a pedant , or fine gentleman . How or when he acquir'd it we must be content to be igno- rant , but of the French language ...
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... novels translated from other authors , made by one William Painter , and by him first publish'd in the years 1565 and 67 , in two tomes , quarto ; the novel now spoken of , is the thirty - eighth of tome the first . This novel is a ...
... novels translated from other authors , made by one William Painter , and by him first publish'd in the years 1565 and 67 , in two tomes , quarto ; the novel now spoken of , is the thirty - eighth of tome the first . This novel is a ...
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