The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2Belford, Clarke, 1890 - 926 pages |
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... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
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... minds ; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , satisfied with the figure ... mind , but in one composition . Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters , and , in ...
... minds ; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition , as a painter , satisfied with the figure ... mind , but in one composition . Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters , and , in ...
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... mind , are checked and blasted by fairies . Shakspeare , indeed , was not the only vio- sudden frigidity . lator of chronology , for in the same age Sidney who wanted not the advantages of learning , has in his Arcadia , confounded the ...
... mind , are checked and blasted by fairies . Shakspeare , indeed , was not the only vio- sudden frigidity . lator of chronology , for in the same age Sidney who wanted not the advantages of learning , has in his Arcadia , confounded the ...
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... mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field . In his other works he has well enough preserved the unity of action . He ...
... mind thus wandering in ecstacy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field . In his other works he has well enough preserved the unity of action . He ...
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... mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed capable to give us shade , or the fountains coolness ; but we consider , how we should be pleased with such fountains playing beside us , and ...
... mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed capable to give us shade , or the fountains coolness ; but we consider , how we should be pleased with such fountains playing beside us , and ...
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