Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... English letters . So Pope and Johnson had stated in unequivocal language , which should not have been forgotten . He is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature , " said Pope , " and ' tis not so just to say that he speaks ...
... English letters . So Pope and Johnson had stated in unequivocal language , which should not have been forgotten . He is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature , " said Pope , " and ' tis not so just to say that he speaks ...
Página x
... English have in Shakespeare " ; and the whole Preface resolves itself , however reluctantly , into praise of Schlegel and censure of Johnson . When a thorough Englishman writes thus , it is not surprising that Germany should have ...
... English have in Shakespeare " ; and the whole Preface resolves itself , however reluctantly , into praise of Schlegel and censure of Johnson . When a thorough Englishman writes thus , it is not surprising that Germany should have ...
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... English tongue boasts of who is more the subject of the Ladies ' reading . " It would be difficult to explain away these statements . The critical interest in Shakespeare occasioned by Pope's edition may have increased the knowledge of ...
... English tongue boasts of who is more the subject of the Ladies ' reading . " It would be difficult to explain away these statements . The critical interest in Shakespeare occasioned by Pope's edition may have increased the knowledge of ...
Página xv
... English tragedy till they choked it . His regard for Shakespeare did not give him courage for the addition of a comic element or an under- plot . He must obey the " hampering critics , " though his avowed model had ignored them ...
... English tragedy till they choked it . His regard for Shakespeare did not give him courage for the addition of a comic element or an under- plot . He must obey the " hampering critics , " though his avowed model had ignored them ...
Página xvi
... English theatre . To introduce a chorus , as Rymer had recommended , or to expel love from the stage , would , he argued , only ruin the English drama . But his belief in the classical rules . made him turn the Merry Wives into the ...
... English theatre . To introduce a chorus , as Rymer had recommended , or to expel love from the stage , would , he argued , only ruin the English drama . But his belief in the classical rules . made him turn the Merry Wives into the ...
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