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 - 288페이지 |
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... spirit of the drama is greatly weakened and enervated , and the theatrical piece is deprived of that peculiar influence over the mind , which it derives from the vivid force of representation . Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aurem ...
... spirit of the drama is greatly weakened and enervated , and the theatrical piece is deprived of that peculiar influence over the mind , which it derives from the vivid force of representation . Segnius irritant animos demiffa per aurem ...
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... spirit ; yet this is one of the best French tragedies . · It is usual to compliment Corneille with having added dignity to the Romans ; and he has undoubtedly given them a certain ftrained elevation of fentiment and expreffion , which ...
... spirit ; yet this is one of the best French tragedies . · It is usual to compliment Corneille with having added dignity to the Romans ; and he has undoubtedly given them a certain ftrained elevation of fentiment and expreffion , which ...
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... spirits of a fuperior world ? The Greeks of Racine , fays he , are not indeed of that universe which belonged only to Corneille ; but with what pleasure does he make us behold ourselves in the perfons he presents to us ! and how ...
... spirits of a fuperior world ? The Greeks of Racine , fays he , are not indeed of that universe which belonged only to Corneille ; but with what pleasure does he make us behold ourselves in the perfons he presents to us ! and how ...
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... spirit of criticism should controul us in the use of any of them . Thofe which we should have judged most barren , have brought forth noble productions , when cultivated by an able hand . Even fairy land has produced the sub- lime ; and ...
... spirit of criticism should controul us in the use of any of them . Thofe which we should have judged most barren , have brought forth noble productions , when cultivated by an able hand . Even fairy land has produced the sub- lime ; and ...
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... spirit of liberty , and delighted in painting popular tumults , the progrefs of civil wars , and the revolutions . of government , rather than a catastrophe within the walls of a palace . At the time he wrote , the wars of the Houfes of ...
... spirit of liberty , and delighted in painting popular tumults , the progrefs of civil wars , and the revolutions . of government , rather than a catastrophe within the walls of a palace . At the time he wrote , the wars of the Houfes of ...
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265 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - 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 페이지 - LEAR. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.