Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... common opinion that the century did not give him his due . The nine Essays or Prefaces here reprinted may claim to represent the chief phases of Shakespearian study from the days of Dryden to those of Coleridge . It is one of the evils ...
... common opinion that the century did not give him his due . The nine Essays or Prefaces here reprinted may claim to represent the chief phases of Shakespearian study from the days of Dryden to those of Coleridge . It is one of the evils ...
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... common mistake of that age , and there was as yet no definite knowledge of how a play should be constructed . " " The burden of Rowe's criticism is that " strength and nature made amends for art . " The line might serve as the text of ...
... common mistake of that age , and there was as yet no definite knowledge of how a play should be constructed . " " The burden of Rowe's criticism is that " strength and nature made amends for art . " The line might serve as the text of ...
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... common centre . " In the Dedication to the letters On the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare we read that Aristotle , " who may be call'd the Legislator of Parnassus , wrote the laws of tragedy so exactly and so truly in reason and ...
... common centre . " In the Dedication to the letters On the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare we read that Aristotle , " who may be call'd the Legislator of Parnassus , wrote the laws of tragedy so exactly and so truly in reason and ...
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... tained the curious fact that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakespeare " ( Works , ed . Masson , iv . , p . 24 ) . common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate INTRODUCTION xix.
... tained the curious fact that Addison has never in one instance quoted or made any reference to Shakespeare " ( Works , ed . Masson , iv . , p . 24 ) . common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate INTRODUCTION xix.
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David Nichol Smith. common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate much of what has been supposed to be the discovery of the romantic school . His Preface has received scant justice . There is no more convincing ...
David Nichol Smith. common sense and independence of judgment led him to anticipate much of what has been supposed to be the discovery of the romantic school . His Preface has received scant justice . There is no more convincing ...
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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.