Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the fhades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is ...
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... mind can only repose on the stability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is ...
... mind can only repose on the stability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern ... minds are agitated , and the whole fyftem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is ...
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... minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . " The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing co- mick and tragick fcenes , as it extends to ...
... minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country and condition , as a painter , fatisfied with the figure , neglects the drapery . " The cenfure which he has incurred by mixing co- mick and tragick fcenes , as it extends to ...
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... mind , but in one compofition . Almoft all his plays are divided be- tween serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fometimes pro- duce duce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
... mind , but in one compofition . Almoft all his plays are divided be- tween serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolutions of the defign , fometimes pro- duce duce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
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... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue , he never ...
... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue , he never ...
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Página 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Página 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...