The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2Belford, Clarke, 1890 - 926 pages |
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... nature , no man can properly call a river deep , or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains , and many rivers ; so in the pro- ductions of genius , nothing can be styled excellent till it has been compared with other ...
... nature , no man can properly call a river deep , or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains , and many rivers ; so in the pro- ductions of genius , nothing can be styled excellent till it has been compared with other ...
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... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed . This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare , that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in ...
... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed . This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare , that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in ...
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... nature . The end Shakspeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey world open before him ; the rules of the ancients all the ...
... nature . The end Shakspeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey world open before him ; the rules of the ancients all the ...
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... nature . There is no reason why a 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 ...
... nature . There is no reason why a 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 ...
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... nature is only the power of using to any certain purpose the materials which diligence pro- cures , or opportunity supplies . Nature gives no man knowledge , and when images are collected by study and experience , can only assist in ...
... nature is only the power of using to any certain purpose the materials which diligence pro- cures , or opportunity supplies . Nature gives no man knowledge , and when images are collected by study and experience , can only assist in ...
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