Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... beginning , middle and end . If you will not allow that he wrote ftrictly tragedies ; yet it may be granted that he wrote dramatic heroic poems ; in which , is there not an imi- tation of one action , ferious , entire , and of a just ...
... beginning , middle and end . If you will not allow that he wrote ftrictly tragedies ; yet it may be granted that he wrote dramatic heroic poems ; in which , is there not an imi- tation of one action , ferious , entire , and of a just ...
Page 30
... beginning and ending in itself , ) and by ambitious views . Befide cruelty is most noto- rious in weak and womanifh natures . As ' twas 6 cuftomary for the king to vifit his nobles , he came one day to our hero's castle at Inverness ...
... beginning and ending in itself , ) and by ambitious views . Befide cruelty is most noto- rious in weak and womanifh natures . As ' twas 6 cuftomary for the king to vifit his nobles , he came one day to our hero's castle at Inverness ...
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... beginning of every act a dumb fhew , be- ing a fymbolical reprefentation of what the au- dience were to expect ; who were well dealt with , if after all they could gucfs at the poet's meaning inveloped in a figurative and bombaft ...
... beginning of every act a dumb fhew , be- ing a fymbolical reprefentation of what the au- dience were to expect ; who were well dealt with , if after all they could gucfs at the poet's meaning inveloped in a figurative and bombaft ...
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... beginning , middle and end . The beginning fuppofes nothing wanting before itself ; and requires fomething after it : the middle fuppofes fomething that went before , and requires fomething to follow after : the end requires nothing ...
... beginning , middle and end . The beginning fuppofes nothing wanting before itself ; and requires fomething after it : the middle fuppofes fomething that went before , and requires fomething to follow after : the end requires nothing ...
Page 55
... beginning : his jealousy is the middle : the effects of his jealousy are the end . Macbeth's ambition is roused by the prediction of the witches ; this is the beginning : his procuring the crown by murder is the middle : his punish ...
... beginning : his jealousy is the middle : the effects of his jealousy are the end . Macbeth's ambition is roused by the prediction of the witches ; this is the beginning : his procuring the crown by murder is the middle : his punish ...
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