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... person to fympathize with fuch as groan under its tyrannical fway * . Surely , therefore , our poets cannot be blamed for founding fo many of their tragedies on a love - plot . But though this paffion , when made the foundation of the ...
... person to fympathize with fuch as groan under its tyrannical fway * . Surely , therefore , our poets cannot be blamed for founding fo many of their tragedies on a love - plot . But though this paffion , when made the foundation of the ...
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... person . Zanga tells us , in the first act , that about fix years ago his ma- fter ftruck him ; that blow funk deep in- to his foul , and he vowed revenge : this is the hinge on which the fable turns . Carlos , the friend of Alonzo ...
... person . Zanga tells us , in the first act , that about fix years ago his ma- fter ftruck him ; that blow funk deep in- to his foul , and he vowed revenge : this is the hinge on which the fable turns . Carlos , the friend of Alonzo ...
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... person that is deeply moved with compaffion at the representation of Macbeth , there will be forty at that of Romeo and Juliet , or King Lear . But though a villain is fo improper perfonage for the hero of a tragedy , yet they are very ...
... person that is deeply moved with compaffion at the representation of Macbeth , there will be forty at that of Romeo and Juliet , or King Lear . But though a villain is fo improper perfonage for the hero of a tragedy , yet they are very ...
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When a poet founds a tragedy on some known event , his principal person- ages preffion : fometimes , to throw his language out of the familiar , he employs rhyme . But may it not in fome measure excufe Shakespear , I shall not fay his ...
When a poet founds a tragedy on some known event , his principal person- ages preffion : fometimes , to throw his language out of the familiar , he employs rhyme . But may it not in fome measure excufe Shakespear , I shall not fay his ...
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... person , they are hearti- ly fond of your works ; all without exception , at leaft , if there any to be excepted , I would not be in their cafe . I love the whole , both works and author ; and am , with equal esteem and attach- ment ...
... person , they are hearti- ly fond of your works ; all without exception , at leaft , if there any to be excepted , I would not be in their cafe . I love the whole , both works and author ; and am , with equal esteem and attach- ment ...
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Page 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
Page 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
Page 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
Page 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 40 - IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries.
Page 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
Page 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
Page 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
Page 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...