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 sider |
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... present certain persons and events , does not , in any degree , exift in fuch compofitions . Sophocles certainly unfolds the fatal mystery of the birth of dipus with great art : but our intereft in the play arises not from re- flection ...
... present certain persons and events , does not , in any degree , exift in fuch compofitions . Sophocles certainly unfolds the fatal mystery of the birth of dipus with great art : but our intereft in the play arises not from re- flection ...
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... present the gay , luxurious , diffolute , ambi- tious Otho , the courtier of Nero , and the gallant of Poppea , as a mere Paftor Fido , who would die rather than be inconftant to his mistress , and is indifferent to empire but for her ...
... present the gay , luxurious , diffolute , ambi- tious Otho , the courtier of Nero , and the gallant of Poppea , as a mere Paftor Fido , who would die rather than be inconftant to his mistress , and is indifferent to empire but for her ...
Side 89
... present circumstances , and the characters of the perfons from whofe conduct in fuch circumstances the fubfequent events are to flow . An intelligent fpectator will receive great pleasure from obferving every action naturally naturally ...
... present circumstances , and the characters of the perfons from whofe conduct in fuch circumstances the fubfequent events are to flow . An intelligent fpectator will receive great pleasure from obferving every action naturally naturally ...
Side 91
... present paffions and events , creates in the reader an interest and a sympathy which a cold narration or a pompous declamation could not have ef- fected . As the author defigned Percy should be an interesting character , his ...
... present paffions and events , creates in the reader an interest and a sympathy which a cold narration or a pompous declamation could not have ef- fected . As the author defigned Percy should be an interesting character , his ...
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... present themselves ; murder alarumed by his centinel ; the wolf ftealing towards his defign ; witchcraft celebrating pale Hecate's offerings ; the midnight ravisher invading fleeping innocence , feem his affociates ; and bloody daggers ...
... present themselves ; murder alarumed by his centinel ; the wolf ftealing towards his defign ; witchcraft celebrating pale Hecate's offerings ; the midnight ravisher invading fleeping innocence , feem his affociates ; and bloody daggers ...
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Side 265 - 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.
Side 250 - 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...
Side 269 - 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.
Side 181 - 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...
Side 214 - 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.
Side 180 - 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.
Side 269 - 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...
Side 265 - 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.
Side 264 - 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.
Side 78 - LEAR. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.