Dramatic Micellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare: With a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick and Other Celebrated Comedians. With Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &c, Volume 2The author, 1783 |
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... paffion of this sweet girl is of the nobleft kind : Nature , fays Shakspeare in Hamlet , is fine in love ; ' that is , it purifies and refines our paffions . Before marriage Helen diminishes the ble- mishes of Parolles , because he is ...
... paffion of this sweet girl is of the nobleft kind : Nature , fays Shakspeare in Hamlet , is fine in love ; ' that is , it purifies and refines our paffions . Before marriage Helen diminishes the ble- mishes of Parolles , because he is ...
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... paffion and all repentance , is like a picture without keeping : the light and fhade , though ftrong , receive no ad- vantage from the perfpective : the distress of Arbaces is , from fituation , continually bordering upon the ridiculous ...
... paffion and all repentance , is like a picture without keeping : the light and fhade , though ftrong , receive no ad- vantage from the perfpective : the distress of Arbaces is , from fituation , continually bordering upon the ridiculous ...
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... paffion to a lady whom he fuppofes to be his fifter : this belief raises him fometimes to fits of frenzy . A play , founded upon incest , or any thing repugnant to nature , even in fuppofition , can never please an English audience ...
... paffion to a lady whom he fuppofes to be his fifter : this belief raises him fometimes to fits of frenzy . A play , founded upon incest , or any thing repugnant to nature , even in fuppofition , can never please an English audience ...
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... paffion , or peculiar hu- mour , which separates a man from the rest of his fpecies ? Characters are formed from manners , and these are derived from paffions . When they are indulged to a certain distinguishing degree , fo as to make a ...
... paffion , or peculiar hu- mour , which separates a man from the rest of his fpecies ? Characters are formed from manners , and these are derived from paffions . When they are indulged to a certain distinguishing degree , fo as to make a ...
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... paffion , or business . His tranflations from the claffics are tiresome and difgufting , and retard , rather than forward , the progress of the play . When the tragedy is brought , by the death of Se- janus , to its proper period ...
... paffion , or business . His tranflations from the claffics are tiresome and difgufting , and retard , rather than forward , the progress of the play . When the tragedy is brought , by the death of Se- janus , to its proper period ...
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Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several ... Thomas Davies Visualização completa - 1783 |
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