An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; with Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireHarding, 1810 - 296 páginas |
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... better sort alone could read even their mother tongue , their taste was formed on these compositions . As yet our stage had exhi- bited only those palpable allegories , by which rude unlettered moralists instruct and please the gross ...
... better sort alone could read even their mother tongue , their taste was formed on these compositions . As yet our stage had exhi- bited only those palpable allegories , by which rude unlettered moralists instruct and please the gross ...
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... better than any one has ever done , the chief purposes of theatrical repre- sentation . It avails little to prove , that the means by which he effects them are not those prescribed in any Art of Poetry . While we feel the power and ...
... better than any one has ever done , the chief purposes of theatrical repre- sentation . It avails little to prove , that the means by which he effects them are not those prescribed in any Art of Poetry . While we feel the power and ...
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... read the sad history of his country : while the better sort were informed of the most minute circumstances by our chronicles . The tra- gedians gedians who took their subjects from Ho- mer , had ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA . 45.
... read the sad history of his country : while the better sort were informed of the most minute circumstances by our chronicles . The tra- gedians gedians who took their subjects from Ho- mer , had ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA . 45.
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... better person than myself ; I'll make my heav'n to dream upon the crown , And while I live to account this world but hell , Until the misshap'd trunk that bears this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown . [ Henry VI . Act 3d ...
... better person than myself ; I'll make my heav'n to dream upon the crown , And while I live to account this world but hell , Until the misshap'd trunk that bears this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown . [ Henry VI . Act 3d ...
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... better imagined than the parallel he draws between himself and Percy , Richard and Henry of Monmouth . The affectionate father , the offended king , the provident politician , and the conscious usurper , are all united in the following ...
... better imagined than the parallel he draws between himself and Percy , Richard and Henry of Monmouth . The affectionate father , the offended king , the provident politician , and the conscious usurper , are all united in the following ...
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Página 231 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 238 - Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Página 173 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Página 240 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 226 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 244 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 148 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 237 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 239 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus- is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Página 240 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men; Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.