The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1A. Leathley, 1766 |
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Page viii
... poets , according to the laws which cuftom had prescribed , selected fome the crimes of men , and fome their abfurdities ; fome the momentous viciffitudes of life , and fome the lighter occurrences ; fome the terrours of diftrefs , and ...
... poets , according to the laws which cuftom had prescribed , selected fome the crimes of men , and fome their abfurdities ; fome the momentous viciffitudes of life , and fome the lighter occurrences ; fome the terrours of diftrefs , and ...
Page xi
... poets , paffes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare . 154 If there be , what I believe there is , in every nation , a ftile which never becomes obfolete , a certain mode of phrafeology fo confonant and congenial to the analogy ...
... poets , paffes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare . 154 If there be , what I believe there is , in every nation , a ftile which never becomes obfolete , a certain mode of phrafeology fo confonant and congenial to the analogy ...
Page xii
... poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally re- mote , and among his other excellencies deferves to be studied as one of the original ...
... poet feems to have gathered his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally re- mote , and among his other excellencies deferves to be studied as one of the original ...
Page xv
... poet have never lefs reason to indulge their hopes of fupreme excellence , than when he seems fully refolved to fink them in de- jection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the ...
... poet have never lefs reason to indulge their hopes of fupreme excellence , than when he seems fully refolved to fink them in de- jection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the ...
Page xvi
... poets and of criticks . For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical juftice ... poet of nature : But his plan has commonly what Ariftotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end ; one event ...
... poets and of criticks . For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical juftice ... poet of nature : But his plan has commonly what Ariftotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end ; one event ...
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