Some account of the life, etc. of Wm. Shakespeare, by [Nicholas] Rowe. Dr. Johnson's preface. Farmer's Essay on the learning of Shakespeare. The tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaVernor, Hood and Sharp, 1809 |
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... tragedy upon the Greek models ( or indeed translated them ) in his epistle to Augustus : -naturĂ¢ sublimis et acer : Nam spirat tragicum satis , et feliciter audet , Sed turpem putat in chartis metuitque lituram . As I have not proposed ...
... tragedy upon the Greek models ( or indeed translated them ) in his epistle to Augustus : -naturĂ¢ sublimis et acer : Nam spirat tragicum satis , et feliciter audet , Sed turpem putat in chartis metuitque lituram . As I have not proposed ...
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... tragedies , with a run or mixture of comedy amongst them . That way of tragi - comedy was the common mistake of that ... tragedy . The Merry Wives of Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew , are all pure comedy ; the ...
... tragedies , with a run or mixture of comedy amongst them . That way of tragi - comedy was the common mistake of that ... tragedy . The Merry Wives of Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew , are all pure comedy ; the ...
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... tragedies of Mr. Shakespeare . If one undertook to examine the greatest part of these by those rules which are established by Aristotle , and taken from the model of the Grecian stage , it would be no very hard task to find a great many ...
... tragedies of Mr. Shakespeare . If one undertook to examine the greatest part of these by those rules which are established by Aristotle , and taken from the model of the Grecian stage , it would be no very hard task to find a great many ...
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... tragedy something very moving in the grief of Electra ; but , jas M. Dacier has observed , there is something very unnatural and shocking in the manners he has given that Princess and Orestes in the latter part . Orestes imbrues his ...
... tragedy something very moving in the grief of Electra ; but , jas M. Dacier has observed , there is something very unnatural and shocking in the manners he has given that Princess and Orestes in the latter part . Orestes imbrues his ...
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... tragedy , but the former ought always to be carefully avoided . And certainly no dramatic writer ever succeeded better in raising terror in the minds of an audience than Shakespeare has done . The whole tragedy of Macbeth , but more ...
... tragedy , but the former ought always to be carefully avoided . And certainly no dramatic writer ever succeeded better in raising terror in the minds of an audience than Shakespeare has done . The whole tragedy of Macbeth , but more ...
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