Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... Johnson's time we can trace the influence of Thomas Rymer , who , in his Short View of Tragedy , had championed the classical drama , and had gone as far in abuse as his greater contemporary had gone in praise . The authority which each ...
... Johnson's time we can trace the influence of Thomas Rymer , who , in his Short View of Tragedy , had championed the classical drama , and had gone as far in abuse as his greater contemporary had gone in praise . The authority which each ...
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... Johnson had disavowed what had almost come to be considered the very substance of the classical faith . In his Irene he had bowed to the rules ; he had , however , begun to suspect them by the time he wrote the Rambler , and in the ...
... Johnson had disavowed what had almost come to be considered the very substance of the classical faith . In his Irene he had bowed to the rules ; he had , however , begun to suspect them by the time he wrote the Rambler , and in the ...
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... Johnson had already vindicated the national pride in Shakespeare . That his views soon became the commonplaces of those critics who strike the average of current opinion , is shown 3 1 It must be noted that some of Johnson's arguments ...
... Johnson had already vindicated the national pride in Shakespeare . That his views soon became the commonplaces of those critics who strike the average of current opinion , is shown 3 1 It must be noted that some of Johnson's arguments ...
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... Johnson by a lame repetition of the arguments which Johnson had overthrown . Even Pope is said to have let his partiality get the better of his usual justice and candour when he claimed that Shake- speare was not to be judged by what ...
... Johnson by a lame repetition of the arguments which Johnson had overthrown . Even Pope is said to have let his partiality get the better of his usual justice and candour when he claimed that Shake- speare was not to be judged by what ...
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... Johnson's , the controversy continued intermittently with- out either party gaining ground . In the Preface to the supplementary volume to Pope's edition - which is a reprint of Gildon's supplementary volume to Rowe's- Sewell declared ...
... Johnson's , the controversy continued intermittently with- out either party gaining ground . In the Preface to the supplementary volume to Pope's edition - which is a reprint of Gildon's supplementary volume to Rowe's- Sewell declared ...
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