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 VoltaireJ. Dodsley, 1769 - 288 ページ |
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... never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the laft age , nor which from its tediousness , languor , and want of truth of character is lefs fit to be copied on the stage : and what are most the parts ...
... never was a more barbarous mode of writing than that of the French romances in the laft age , nor which from its tediousness , languor , and want of truth of character is lefs fit to be copied on the stage : and what are most the parts ...
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... never had a fon . One might be made to conceive , in fome degree , the horrors of a murderer , under whofe knife the bleeding victim is expiring in agonies , by a description of the unhappy object ; but how fully , and how forcibly , is ...
... never had a fon . One might be made to conceive , in fome degree , the horrors of a murderer , under whofe knife the bleeding victim is expiring in agonies , by a description of the unhappy object ; but how fully , and how forcibly , is ...
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... never fail to command our fympathy . Shakespear seems to have had the art of the Dervife , in the Arabian tales , who could throw his foul into the body of another man , and be at once poffeffed of his fentiments , adopt his paffions ...
... never fail to command our fympathy . Shakespear seems to have had the art of the Dervife , in the Arabian tales , who could throw his foul into the body of another man , and be at once poffeffed of his fentiments , adopt his paffions ...
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... never introduce a hero who had appeared in the Iliad or Odyfféy , without a strict attention to making him act fuitably to the opinion from those epic poems . conceived of him When Ulyffes , in comes to demand the tragedy of Hecuba ...
... never introduce a hero who had appeared in the Iliad or Odyfféy , without a strict attention to making him act fuitably to the opinion from those epic poems . conceived of him When Ulyffes , in comes to demand the tragedy of Hecuba ...
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... never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no fubmiffion . Then let fall Your horrible pleasure ; here I ftand your flave , A poor , infirm , weak , and despis'd old man ! And yet I call you servile ministers , That have ...
... never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no fubmiffion . Then let fall Your horrible pleasure ; here I ftand your flave , A poor , infirm , weak , and despis'd old man ! And yet I call you servile ministers , That have ...
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265 ページ - Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am, to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause : What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? — O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason ! — Bear with me ; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
250 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...
269 ページ - O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. 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.
181 ページ - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of...
214 ページ - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
180 ページ - Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, }Never to hope again.
269 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...
265 ページ - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.
264 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.
78 ページ - LEAR. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.