The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2Belford, Clarke, 1890 - 926 pages |
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... play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish usurper is repre- sented as a drunkard . But Shakspeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he pre- serves the essential character , is ...
... play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish usurper is repre- sented as a drunkard . But Shakspeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he pre- serves the essential character , is ...
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... play , though and laughter . in terms which a modern audience would not easily endure ; the character of Polonius is seasonable and useful ; and the Gravediggers themselves may be heard with applause . That this is a practice contrary ...
... play , though and laughter . in terms which a modern audience would not easily endure ; the character of Polonius is seasonable and useful ; and the Gravediggers themselves may be heard with applause . That this is a practice contrary ...
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... play read , affects the mind like a play acted . It is therefore evident , that the action is not sup- posed to be real ; and it follows , that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass , and that no more account ...
... play read , affects the mind like a play acted . It is therefore evident , that the action is not sup- posed to be real ; and it follows , that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass , and that no more account ...
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... plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crowded with ... play of on our stage something must be done as well as said , Plautus which was then in English . What can be and ...
... plays , when they had been translated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crowded with ... play of on our stage something must be done as well as said , Plautus which was then in English . What can be and ...
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... play some freaks in its own right , than we who read it only by imagination . But dominion . There is no danger in conjecture , if it it is evident that they have often made strange mistakes be proposed as conjecture ; and while the ...
... play some freaks in its own right , than we who read it only by imagination . But dominion . There is no danger in conjecture , if it it is evident that they have often made strange mistakes be proposed as conjecture ; and while the ...
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