The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1793 |
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... pleasure of life , been neglected . The vegetable fyftem of Tull , after ftanding many years unim- peached by any cafual obfervations , has within these few years been confirmed by the exprefs experi- ments of Monfieur Duhamel , and ...
... pleasure of life , been neglected . The vegetable fyftem of Tull , after ftanding many years unim- peached by any cafual obfervations , has within these few years been confirmed by the exprefs experi- ments of Monfieur Duhamel , and ...
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... pleasure was greatly heigh- tened by feeing them fucceeded by men , from whom they might expect not only redrefs , but improvement in both thefe refpects . The chiefs of the new miniftry , inftead of en- croaching Croaching upon the ...
... pleasure was greatly heigh- tened by feeing them fucceeded by men , from whom they might expect not only redrefs , but improvement in both thefe refpects . The chiefs of the new miniftry , inftead of en- croaching Croaching upon the ...
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... pleasure . Mr. Juftice Wilmot then pro- ceeded to pafs fentence on Mr. Williams , which was as follows : to pay a fine of 100l . to be impri- foned fix months in the King's Bench , to ftand once in the pillory in Old Palace - yard , and ...
... pleasure . Mr. Juftice Wilmot then pro- ceeded to pafs fentence on Mr. Williams , which was as follows : to pay a fine of 100l . to be impri- foned fix months in the King's Bench , to ftand once in the pillory in Old Palace - yard , and ...
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... pleasure to affure their lordships , that I have ftrictly obeyed their orders , in feeing his majesty's commands punc- tually executed ; and likewife to affure them , that the inhabitants of the bay are perfectly fatis fied . Don Philip ...
... pleasure to affure their lordships , that I have ftrictly obeyed their orders , in feeing his majesty's commands punc- tually executed ; and likewife to affure them , that the inhabitants of the bay are perfectly fatis fied . Don Philip ...
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... pleasure to the lords juftices , that it be given out in public orders , in every quarter of Ireland , and the lords juftices have accordingly directed it to be given out in or ders , " That his majesty received with the utmoft furprize ...
... pleasure to the lords juftices , that it be given out in public orders , in every quarter of Ireland , and the lords juftices have accordingly directed it to be given out in or ders , " That his majesty received with the utmoft furprize ...
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Página 313 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Página 261 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 315 - 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.
Página 314 - Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful: the event which he represents will not happen; but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned...
Página 233 - ... makes gradual advances, and the end of the play is the end of expectation. To the unities of time and place...
Página 234 - He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium.
Página 317 - ... his disposition, as Rhymer has remarked, led him to comedy. In tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study, what is written at last with little felicity ; but in his comick scenes, he seems to produce without labour, what no labour can improve.
Página 317 - In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick, but in comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
Página 316 - That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied, because it includes both in its...
Página 233 - Medea could in so short a time have transported him; he knows with certainty that he has not changed his place; and he knows that place cannot change itself: that what was a house cannot become a plain, that what was Thebes can never be Persepolis.