Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... genius , but they persist in regretting that his plays are not properly constructed . Little importance attaches to Mrs. Mon- tagu's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare ( 1769 ) . It was only a well - meaning but shallow ...
... genius , but they persist in regretting that his plays are not properly constructed . Little importance attaches to Mrs. Mon- tagu's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare ( 1769 ) . It was only a well - meaning but shallow ...
Página xxii
... genius . The controversy proper begins with Rowe's Account of Shakespeare . On this subject , as on others , Rowe ex- presses the tradition of the seventeenth century . His view is the same as Dryden's , and Dryden had accepted Jonson's ...
... genius . The controversy proper begins with Rowe's Account of Shakespeare . On this subject , as on others , Rowe ex- presses the tradition of the seventeenth century . His view is the same as Dryden's , and Dryden had accepted Jonson's ...
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... genius than of experience , and it is knowledge of human nature which gives him his supremacy . The same views are repeated in the periodical essays . The Mirror regards it as " preposterous " to endeavour to regularise his plays , and ...
... genius than of experience , and it is knowledge of human nature which gives him his supremacy . The same views are repeated in the periodical essays . The Mirror regards it as " preposterous " to endeavour to regularise his plays , and ...
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... genius . " Hugh Blair , whose name is associated with the Edinburgh edition of 1753 , had said in his lectures on rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh that Shakespeare " deficient in just taste , and altogether unassisted by ...
... genius . " Hugh Blair , whose name is associated with the Edinburgh edition of 1753 , had said in his lectures on rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh that Shakespeare " deficient in just taste , and altogether unassisted by ...
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... genius have , by observing them , pretended to fame ; while critics without discernment have assumed importance from knowing them . But the regularity thereby established , though highly proper , is by no means the first requisite in a ...
... genius have , by observing them , pretended to fame ; while critics without discernment have assumed importance from knowing them . But the regularity thereby established , though highly proper , is by no means the first requisite in a ...
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