Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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Página xvii
... ancients guided his taste without blinding him to modern excellence . Even Lewis Theobald , whom some would consider Shakespeare's greatest friend in this century , believed in the rules . He complied with the taste of the town when he ...
... ancients guided his taste without blinding him to modern excellence . Even Lewis Theobald , whom some would consider Shakespeare's greatest friend in this century , believed in the rules . He complied with the taste of the town when he ...
Página xix
... ancients , but , unlike the pedant theorists , he refused to judge Shakespeare by the rules of a foreign drama . Much the same is to be said of Addison . His belief in the rules appears in his Cato . His over - rated criticism of ...
... ancients , but , unlike the pedant theorists , he refused to judge Shakespeare by the rules of a foreign drama . Much the same is to be said of Addison . His belief in the rules appears in his Cato . His over - rated criticism of ...
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... allows , " he says , he says , " that Shakespeare had learning and a familiar acquaintance with the Ancients , ought to be looked upon as a detractor from his extraordinary merit and from the glory of Great Britain xxii INTRODUCTION.
... allows , " he says , he says , " that Shakespeare had learning and a familiar acquaintance with the Ancients , ought to be looked upon as a detractor from his extraordinary merit and from the glory of Great Britain xxii INTRODUCTION.
Página xxiii
... Ancients , he does not fail to convey the impression that he belongs to the other party . And , indeed , in another passage of the Preface he says with definiteness , inconsistent with his other state- ments , that Shakespeare was ...
... Ancients , he does not fail to convey the impression that he belongs to the other party . And , indeed , in another passage of the Preface he says with definiteness , inconsistent with his other state- ments , that Shakespeare was ...
Página xxiv
... Ancients . " He had said that Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida left it without dispute or exception that Shakespeare was no in- considerable master of the Greek story ; he dared be positive that the latter play was founded ...
... Ancients . " He had said that Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida left it without dispute or exception that Shakespeare was no in- considerable master of the Greek story ; he dared be positive that the latter play was founded ...
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acquainted admirable Ancients appears Author Beauties Ben Johnson Cæsar censure character Comedy Comedy of Errors conjecture copies Coriolanus correct Courage Cowardice criticism Double Falshood drama Dryden Dunciad edition of Shakespeare Editor English Errors Essay Farmer faults Folio Genius give Hamlet hath Henry honour humour Imitation Johnson judgment Julius Caesar Justice kind knowledge labour language Latin learning letter Love's Labour's Lost manner MAURICE MORGANN nature never obscure observation occasion omitted opinion original Ovid passage passion perhaps piece Plautus Players plays Plutarch Poems Poet Poetry Pope Pope's edition Preface Prince printed publick published reader reason Remarks Roman Rowe's Rymer says scenes seems shew shewn Sir John Falstaff Sir Thomas Hanmer Stage Stratford supposed taste Text Theobald thing thought thro tion Tragedy translation Troilus and Cressida truth verse Warburton whole William Shakespeare words write written Zachary Grey