Critical Observations on ShakespeareAMS Press, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... tragedy . " 66 66 for act , a Mr. W. One might be tempted to think the poet wrote STRAGE ! I know no one , that might be tempted to think fo , but his late editor , who has so often removed Shakespeare's sense to the bottom of the page ...
... tragedy . " 66 66 for act , a Mr. W. One might be tempted to think the poet wrote STRAGE ! I know no one , that might be tempted to think fo , but his late editor , who has so often removed Shakespeare's sense to the bottom of the page ...
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... tragedies , not only gal- lantry to women , but an endeavour to raise a ferious diftrefs from the disappointment of lovers ; not confidering that the paffion of love , which one would think they should understand fomething of , is a ...
... tragedies , not only gal- lantry to women , but an endeavour to raise a ferious diftrefs from the disappointment of lovers ; not confidering that the paffion of love , which one would think they should understand fomething of , is a ...
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... TRAGEDIES , as a thing of itself , to all ju- " dicious ears , trivial and of no true mufical 66 delight ; which confifts only in apt numbers , " fit quantity of fyllables , and the fense variously " drawn out from one verfe into ...
... TRAGEDIES , as a thing of itself , to all ju- " dicious ears , trivial and of no true mufical 66 delight ; which confifts only in apt numbers , " fit quantity of fyllables , and the fense variously " drawn out from one verfe into ...
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... tragedies ; and our Wicherlys and Con- greves , well knowing their audience , took the fureft way to please them . 2 Cicero de Leg . II , 15. Plato's words are , εἶδε γὰρ ΚΑΙΝΟΝ [ lego , ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ] μεσικῆς μεταβάλλειν εὐλαβητέον , ὡς ἐν ...
... tragedies ; and our Wicherlys and Con- greves , well knowing their audience , took the fureft way to please them . 2 Cicero de Leg . II , 15. Plato's words are , εἶδε γὰρ ΚΑΙΝΟΝ [ lego , ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ] μεσικῆς μεταβάλλειν εὐλαβητέον , ὡς ἐν ...
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... 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 length , and which , without the help of nar- ration , excites pity and ...
... 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 length , and which , without the help of nar- ration , excites pity and ...
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