An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireH. Hughs, 1772 - 288 ページ |
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... heart , and the artificial dialect which he has acquired from the prejudices of a particular nation , or the jar- gon caught from the tone of a court . In or der to please upon the French stage , every perfon of every age and nation was ...
... heart , and the artificial dialect which he has acquired from the prejudices of a particular nation , or the jar- gon caught from the tone of a court . In or der to please upon the French stage , every perfon of every age and nation was ...
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... through which it opens to itself a communication with the heart , where it is to excite certain paffions and affections ; each character being perfo- perfonated , and each event exhibited , the attention of On DRAMATIC POETRY . 29.
... through which it opens to itself a communication with the heart , where it is to excite certain paffions and affections ; each character being perfo- perfonated , and each event exhibited , the attention of On DRAMATIC POETRY . 29.
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... heart , To make mankind in confcious virtue bold , Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold , He afcribes fuch power to a well - wrought fcene , as to ask , When Cato groans who does not wish to bleed ? He would not have fuppofed ...
... heart , To make mankind in confcious virtue bold , Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold , He afcribes fuch power to a well - wrought fcene , as to ask , When Cato groans who does not wish to bleed ? He would not have fuppofed ...
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... heart , require , we should adore her for the glitter of a few false brilliants , or the nice arrange- ment of frippery ornaments ? If she wears any thing of intrinfic value , it has been borrowed from the ancients ; but by these ...
... heart , require , we should adore her for the glitter of a few false brilliants , or the nice arrange- ment of frippery ornaments ? If she wears any thing of intrinfic value , it has been borrowed from the ancients ; but by these ...
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... heart is by the Sufferer's expreffion of his paffion . As there may be fome obfcurity in what I have faid on this fubject , I will endeavour to illuftrate the doctrine by examples . Sophocles , in his admirable Tragedy of dipus Coloneus ...
... heart is by the Sufferer's expreffion of his paffion . As there may be fome obfcurity in what I have faid on this fubject , I will endeavour to illuftrate the doctrine by examples . Sophocles , in his admirable Tragedy of dipus Coloneus ...
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247 ページ - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
260 ページ - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
265 ページ - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
265 ページ - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
254 ページ - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
182 ページ - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
177 ページ - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
262 ページ - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
266 ページ - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
183 ページ - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...