Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 sider |
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Side xi
... Tragedies of Shake- speare , which in my youthful days have so frequently filled my eyes with tears , hold their rank still , and are the great support of our theatre . " 2 Theobald could say that " this author is grown so universal a ...
... Tragedies of Shake- speare , which in my youthful days have so frequently filled my eyes with tears , hold their rank still , and are the great support of our theatre . " 2 Theobald could say that " this author is grown so universal a ...
Side xiv
... Tragedy , had championed the classical drama , and had gone as far in abuse as his greater contemporary had gone in praise . The authority which each exerted is well illustrated by Rowe's Account of Shakespeare . Rowe is of the party of ...
... Tragedy , had championed the classical drama , and had gone as far in abuse as his greater contemporary had gone in praise . The authority which each exerted is well illustrated by Rowe's Account of Shakespeare . Rowe is of the party of ...
Side xv
... tragedy till they choked it . His regard for Shakespeare did not give him courage for the addition of a comic element or an under- plot . He must obey the " hampering critics , " though his avowed model had ignored them . Accordingly ...
... tragedy till they choked it . His regard for Shakespeare did not give him courage for the addition of a comic element or an under- plot . He must obey the " hampering critics , " though his avowed model had ignored them . Accordingly ...
Side xvii
... tragedy so exactly and so truly in reason and nature that succeeding criticks have writ justly and reasonably upon that art no farther than they have adhered to their great master's notions . " But at the very beginning of the letters ...
... tragedy so exactly and so truly in reason and nature that succeeding criticks have writ justly and reasonably upon that art no farther than they have adhered to their great master's notions . " But at the very beginning of the letters ...
Side xx
... Tragedy ( 1747 ) by William Guthrie . They admire his genius , but they persist in regretting that his plays are not properly constructed . Little importance attaches to Mrs. Mon- tagu's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare ...
... Tragedy ( 1747 ) by William Guthrie . They admire his genius , but they persist in regretting that his plays are not properly constructed . Little importance attaches to Mrs. Mon- tagu's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare ...
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Side 12 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Side 119 - Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition. Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow, and sometimes levity and laughter. That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
Side 121 - The accidental compositions of heterogeneous modes are dissolved by the chance which combined them ; but the uniform simplicity of 'primitive qualities neither admits increase, nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
Side 128 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Side 323 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller.
Side 115 - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and, the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Side 344 - Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage ; wherein a second pen had good share...
Side xix - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Side 122 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered, this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Side 191 - I' the presence He would say untruths; .and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning : He was never, But where he meant to ruin, pitiful : His promises were, as he then was, mighty ; But his performance, as he is now, nothing.