Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... present volume shows that the eighteenth century knew many things which the nineteenth has rediscovered for itself . It is at least eighty years since most of these essays were reprinted . Rowe's Account of Shakespeare is given in its ...
... present volume shows that the eighteenth century knew many things which the nineteenth has rediscovered for itself . It is at least eighty years since most of these essays were reprinted . Rowe's Account of Shakespeare is given in its ...
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... remark . Johnson's Preface in particular was remembered only to be despised . It is not rash to say " " that at the present time the majority of those who INTRODUCTION Shakespearian Criticism in the Eighteenth Century -
... remark . Johnson's Preface in particular was remembered only to be despised . It is not rash to say " " that at the present time the majority of those who INTRODUCTION Shakespearian Criticism in the Eighteenth Century -
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David Nichol Smith. that at the present time the majority of those who chance to speak of it pronounce it a discreditable performance . This false attitude to the eighteenth century had its nemesis in the belief that we were awakened by ...
David Nichol Smith. that at the present time the majority of those who chance to speak of it pronounce it a discreditable performance . This false attitude to the eighteenth century had its nemesis in the belief that we were awakened by ...
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... present volume will show how the eighteenth century could almost lose itself in panegyric of Shakespeare . The evidence is so overwhelming that it is hard to understand how the century's respect for Shakespeare was ever doubted . When ...
... present volume will show how the eighteenth century could almost lose itself in panegyric of Shakespeare . The evidence is so overwhelming that it is hard to understand how the century's respect for Shakespeare was ever doubted . When ...
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... Present State of Polite Learning , Ch . xi . 2 Cf. Theophilus Cibber's attack on Garrick's adaptations in his Two Dissertations on the Theatres , 1756 . estimate in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy . Johnson saw INTRODUCTION xiii.
... Present State of Polite Learning , Ch . xi . 2 Cf. Theophilus Cibber's attack on Garrick's adaptations in his Two Dissertations on the Theatres , 1756 . estimate in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy . Johnson saw INTRODUCTION xiii.
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