An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireH. Hughs, 1772 - 288 էջ |
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... turn thither again , and are as good subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute- ly too have they been anatomifed in learned academies : but works , animated by Genius , will not ...
... turn thither again , and are as good subjects for the students in that art , as a dead body to the profeffors in anatomy . Most minute- ly too have they been anatomifed in learned academies : but works , animated by Genius , will not ...
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... Turn , Argu- ment ; fo that many of our countrymen have haftily adopted this lively writer's opinion of the extravagance , and total want of defign in Shakespear's dramas . With the more learned , deep , and fober critics , however , he ...
... Turn , Argu- ment ; fo that many of our countrymen have haftily adopted this lively writer's opinion of the extravagance , and total want of defign in Shakespear's dramas . With the more learned , deep , and fober critics , however , he ...
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... the great ; the warnings to the people ; all high and public precepts are neglected ; and by making the interest of the play turn • Defence of Poefy . upon upon the paffion of Love , to which the man 44 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
... the great ; the warnings to the people ; all high and public precepts are neglected ; and by making the interest of the play turn • Defence of Poefy . upon upon the paffion of Love , to which the man 44 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
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... turn of mind , con- fiders them , not as prefaging , but as in- ftigating his cruel ambition , and finely accounts in the following fpeeches for the afperity of his temper , and his fierce and unmitigated defire of dominion , from his ...
... turn of mind , con- fiders them , not as prefaging , but as in- ftigating his cruel ambition , and finely accounts in the following fpeeches for the afperity of his temper , and his fierce and unmitigated defire of dominion , from his ...
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... turns the great intereft of the play . By the laws of romance the men are to be amorous , and the ladies ambitious . Poor Sertorius in his old age is in love with this lady , for whom Perpenna is alfo dying ; and Sertorius , whom we had ...
... turns the great intereft of the play . By the laws of romance the men are to be amorous , and the ladies ambitious . Poor Sertorius in his old age is in love with this lady , for whom Perpenna is alfo dying ; and Sertorius , whom we had ...
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Էջ 247 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? 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 livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Էջ 260 - 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.
Էջ 265 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Էջ 265 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Էջ 254 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Էջ 182 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Էջ 177 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Էջ 262 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Էջ 266 - 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.
Էջ 183 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...