The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... design . Out of this chaos of mingled purposes and cafu- alties the ancient poets , according to the laws which custom had prescribed , selected some the crimes of men , and fome their abfurdities ; some the momen tous viciffitudes of ...
... design . Out of this chaos of mingled purposes and cafu- alties the ancient poets , according to the laws which custom had prescribed , selected some the crimes of men , and fome their abfurdities ; some the momen tous viciffitudes of ...
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... designs may promote or obviate one another , and the high and the low co - operate in the general system by unavoidable concatenation . It is objected , that by this change of scenes the paffions are interrupted in their progression ...
... designs may promote or obviate one another , and the high and the low co - operate in the general system by unavoidable concatenation . It is objected , that by this change of scenes the paffions are interrupted in their progression ...
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... to. comprehend his own design . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting , which the train of his story feems to force upon him , and apparently rejects thofe those exhibitions which would be more affecting , for the PREFACE .
... to. comprehend his own design . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting , which the train of his story feems to force upon him , and apparently rejects thofe those exhibitions which would be more affecting , for the PREFACE .
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... design only to discover it , for this is feldom the order of real events , and Shake- speare is the poet of nature : but his plan has com- monly what Ariftotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end ; one event is concatenated ...
... design only to discover it , for this is feldom the order of real events , and Shake- speare is the poet of nature : but his plan has com- monly what Ariftotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end ; one event is concatenated ...
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... design , or deviated from them by happy ignorance , it is , I think , impossible to decide , and useless to enquire . We may reasonably suppose , that , when he rose to notice , he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars ...
... design , or deviated from them by happy ignorance , it is , I think , impossible to decide , and useless to enquire . We may reasonably suppose , that , when he rose to notice , he did not want the counsels and admonitions of scholars ...
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