The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 - English drama |
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Page xiv
... writer who attempted both . Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and forrow not only in one mind ... writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- ftruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may con- vey all the ...
... writer who attempted both . Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and forrow not only in one mind ... writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- ftruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may con- vey all the ...
Page xvii
... writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick fcenes , he feems to produce with- out labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome ...
... writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick fcenes , he feems to produce with- out labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome ...
Page xix
... write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a fyftem of focial duty may be felected , for he that thinks reasonably muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop cafually from him ; he makes no juft diftribution ...
... write without any moral purpose . From his writings in- deed a fyftem of focial duty may be felected , for he that thinks reasonably muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop cafually from him ; he makes no juft diftribution ...
Page xx
... writer's duty to make the world better , and juftice is a virtue inde- pendant on time or place . The plots are often fo loofely formed , that a very flight confideration may improve them , and fo care- lefsly purfued , that he feems ...
... writer's duty to make the world better , and juftice is a virtue inde- pendant on time or place . The plots are often fo loofely formed , that a very flight confideration may improve them , and fo care- lefsly purfued , that he feems ...
Page xxi
... writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worfe , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion which exigence forces out are for the most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he ...
... writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worfe , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion which exigence forces out are for the most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he ...
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