The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... last beslowed by time . Antiquity , like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it , not from reason , but from prejudice . Some seem to admire indifcriminately whatever has ...
... last beslowed by time . Antiquity , like every other quality that attracts the notice of mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it , not from reason , but from prejudice . Some seem to admire indifcriminately whatever has ...
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... last the power to move , which constitutes the perfection of dramatick poetry . This reasoning is so specious , that it is received as true even by those who in daily expe- rience feel it to be false . The interchanges of mingled scenes ...
... last the power to move , which constitutes the perfection of dramatick poetry . This reasoning is so specious , that it is received as true even by those who in daily expe- rience feel it to be false . The interchanges of mingled scenes ...
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... he often writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at last with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes , he seems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy PREFACE .
... he often writes with great appearance of toil and study , what is written at last with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes , he seems to produce without labour , labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy PREFACE .
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... last , that the stage is only a stage , and that the players are only players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation . The lines relate to fome action , and an action must be be in ...
... last , that the stage is only a stage , and that the players are only players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation . The lines relate to fome action , and an action must be be in ...
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... last deliberately perfifted in a practice , which he might have begun by chance . As nothing is essential to the fable , but unity of action , and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions , and , by ...
... last deliberately perfifted in a practice , which he might have begun by chance . As nothing is essential to the fable , but unity of action , and as the unities of time and place arise evidently from false assumptions , and , by ...
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