Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his Invention , or strains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumour , meannefs , tedioufnefs , and ob- fcurity . In narration he affects a difproportionate pomp ...
... most part ftriking and energetick ; but whenever he folicits his Invention , or strains his faculties , the offspring of his throes is tumour , meannefs , tedioufnefs , and ob- fcurity . In narration he affects a difproportionate pomp ...
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... most part between the acts ; for , of fo much of the action as is reprefented , the real and poetical duration is the fame . If , in the first act , prepara- tions for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the ...
... most part between the acts ; for , of fo much of the action as is reprefented , the real and poetical duration is the fame . If , in the first act , prepara- tions for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the ...
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... most popular , fuch as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the thread of the story in their hands . The ftories , which we now ...
... most popular , fuch as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the thread of the story in their hands . The ftories , which we now ...
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... most please ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we ftill find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly ...
... most please ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we ftill find that on our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly ...
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... most vigorous , were the beft . But the power of nature is only the power of ufing to any certain purpose the materials which diligence procures , or opportunity fupplies . Nature gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected ...
... most vigorous , were the beft . But the power of nature is only the power of ufing to any certain purpose the materials which diligence procures , or opportunity fupplies . Nature gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected ...
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Página 89 - O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Página 23 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 83 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Página 83 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 82 - Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier...