Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... Latin lectures of Joseph Trapp , the first Professor of Poetry at Oxford , as well as in the Grub Street Essay upon English Tragedy ( 1747 ) by William Guthrie . They admire his genius , but they persist in regretting that his plays are ...
... Latin lectures of Joseph Trapp , the first Professor of Poetry at Oxford , as well as in the Grub Street Essay upon English Tragedy ( 1747 ) by William Guthrie . They admire his genius , but they persist in regretting that his plays are ...
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... Latin and less Greek . " Rowe believes that his acquaintance with Latin authors was such as he might have gained at school he could remember tags of Horace or Mantuan , but was unable to read Plautus in the original . The plea that ...
... Latin and less Greek . " Rowe believes that his acquaintance with Latin authors was such as he might have gained at school he could remember tags of Horace or Mantuan , but was unable to read Plautus in the original . The plea that ...
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... Latin tongue . Theobald , who was bound to go astray when he ventured beyond the collation of texts , was ready to believe that similarity of idea in Shakespeare and the classics was due to direct borrowing . He had , however , the ...
... Latin tongue . Theobald , who was bound to go astray when he ventured beyond the collation of texts , was ready to believe that similarity of idea in Shakespeare and the classics was due to direct borrowing . He had , however , the ...
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... Latin . The style was submitted as " the truest criterion to determine this long agitated question , ' and the conclusion was implied that Shakespeare could not have been familiar with the classics . But this interest- ing passage was ...
... Latin . The style was submitted as " the truest criterion to determine this long agitated question , ' and the conclusion was implied that Shakespeare could not have been familiar with the classics . But this interest- ing passage was ...
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... Latin well enough to have acquired in it a taste and elegance of judgment , and was more indebted to the Ancients than was commonly imagined . On the whole , however , Whalley's attitude was more reasonable than that of Upton or Grey ...
... Latin well enough to have acquired in it a taste and elegance of judgment , and was more indebted to the Ancients than was commonly imagined . On the whole , however , Whalley's attitude was more reasonable than that of Upton or Grey ...
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acquainted admirable Ancients appears Author Beauties Ben Johnson Cæsar Casar censure character Comedy Comedy of Errors conjecture copy Coriolanus Courage Coward Cowardice criticism Double Falshood drama Dryden Dunciad edition of Shakespeare editor emendation English Errors Essay Farmer faults Folio Genius give Hamlet Hanmer hath Henry honour humour Imitation Johnson judgment Julius Cæsar Justice knowledge labour language Latin learning letter Love's Labour's Lost nature never obscure observation occasion opinion original passage passions perhaps Plautus Players plays Plutarch Poems Poet Poetry Pope Preface Prince printed publick published reader reason Remarks Roman Rowe Rowe's Rymer says scene seems shew shewn Sir John Falstaff Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Hanmer Stage Stratford supposed taste Theobald thing thought thro tion Tragedy translation Troilus and Cressida truth Upton verse Warburton whole William Shakespeare WILLIAM WARBURTON words write written Zachary Grey
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.