Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. VoltaireJ. Dodsley, 1769 - 288 páginas |
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... Tacitus had investigated the obliquities of our statesmen , or by diving into the pro- found fecrets of policy had dragged into light the latent motives , the fecret machi- nations of our politicians : yet how does he enter into the ...
... Tacitus had investigated the obliquities of our statesmen , or by diving into the pro- found fecrets of policy had dragged into light the latent motives , the fecret machi- nations of our politicians : yet how does he enter into the ...
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... Tacitus , who in a few words fets before us the infolence , the profligacy , and rapaciousness of a fet of minifters , en- couraged by the weakness of the prince to attempt whatever they wished , and incited by his age to fnatch by ...
... Tacitus , who in a few words fets before us the infolence , the profligacy , and rapaciousness of a fet of minifters , en- couraged by the weakness of the prince to attempt whatever they wished , and incited by his age to fnatch by ...
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... Tacitus are ingrafted into the dialogues , but , from a change of perfons and circumstances , they lofe much of their original force and beauty . • Galba addreffes to his niece , who is in love with Otho , the fine fpeech which the ...
... Tacitus are ingrafted into the dialogues , but , from a change of perfons and circumstances , they lofe much of their original force and beauty . • Galba addreffes to his niece , who is in love with Otho , the fine fpeech which the ...
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... Tacitus without imbibing one spark of his fpirit ; to tranflate whole speeches , yet preserve no likenefs in the characters , is furely betraying a great deficiency of dramatic powers , and of the art of imitation : to re- present the ...
... Tacitus without imbibing one spark of his fpirit ; to tranflate whole speeches , yet preserve no likenefs in the characters , is furely betraying a great deficiency of dramatic powers , and of the art of imitation : to re- present the ...
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... reprefented characters borrowed from fo great a portrait painter as Tacitus , let us now fee what Shakespear has done , from those aukward originals our old chronicles . THE THE FIRST PART OF HENRY FA IV .氟 THE 86 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... reprefented characters borrowed from fo great a portrait painter as Tacitus , let us now fee what Shakespear has done , from those aukward originals our old chronicles . THE THE FIRST PART OF HENRY FA IV .氟 THE 86 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
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