Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... less trustworthy than those which are contemporary . Lyttelton remarked that a veneration for Shakespeare seems to be a part of the national religion , and the only part in which even men of sense are fanatics and Gibbon spoke of the ...
... less trustworthy than those which are contemporary . Lyttelton remarked that a veneration for Shakespeare seems to be a part of the national religion , and the only part in which even men of sense are fanatics and Gibbon spoke of the ...
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... less ready to pardon the " monstrous absurdi- ties " of Shakespeare , as one or two plays , such as the Tempest , are " very near a regularity . " Yet he acknow- ledges that Shakespeare abounds in beauties , and he makes some reparation ...
... less ready to pardon the " monstrous absurdi- ties " of Shakespeare , as one or two plays , such as the Tempest , are " very near a regularity . " Yet he acknow- ledges that Shakespeare abounds in beauties , and he makes some reparation ...
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... less confident is a note on Love's Labour's Lost : " Besides the exact regularity of the rules of art , which the author has happened to preserve in some few of his pieces , this is demonstration , I think , that though he has more fre ...
... less confident is a note on Love's Labour's Lost : " Besides the exact regularity of the rules of art , which the author has happened to preserve in some few of his pieces , this is demonstration , I think , that though he has more fre ...
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... less about the rules . Johnson had performed a great service for that class of critics whose deference to learned opinion kept them from saying fully what they felt . The lesser men had not been at their ease when they referred to ...
... less about the rules . Johnson had performed a great service for that class of critics whose deference to learned opinion kept them from saying fully what they felt . The lesser men had not been at their ease when they referred to ...
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... 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 comparative ...
... 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 comparative ...
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