Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... paffion of love , which one would think they should understand fomething of , is a comic paffion . In fhort 4 Sir William Davenant , and Dryden , began this juft after the restoration ; and their example was foon followed by others . 5 ...
... paffion of love , which one would think they should understand fomething of , is a comic paffion . In fhort 4 Sir William Davenant , and Dryden , began this juft after the restoration ; and their example was foon followed by others . 5 ...
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... Primo ne medium , medio ne difcrepet imum . The trueft poetry is the moft feigning . ' fays the Clown in Shak . As you like it , A & III . like paffions ? So that he fully answers " that like 26 Book I. Critical Obfervations SECT. V. ...
... Primo ne medium , medio ne difcrepet imum . The trueft poetry is the moft feigning . ' fays the Clown in Shak . As you like it , A & III . like paffions ? So that he fully answers " that like 26 Book I. Critical Obfervations SECT. V. ...
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John Upton. like paffions ? So that he fully answers " that " end , which both at the first and now , was " and is , to hold as ' twere the mirrour up to nature ; to fhew virtue her own feature , " fcorn her own image , and the very age ...
John Upton. like paffions ? So that he fully answers " that " end , which both at the first and now , was " and is , to hold as ' twere the mirrour up to nature ; to fhew virtue her own feature , " fcorn her own image , and the very age ...
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... paffion , of one hero , he is to carry it through- out in all its confequences . I mentioned above that the story was interefting , as a British story ; and ' tis equally fo , as Macbeth , the hero of the tragedy , is drawn a man , not ...
... paffion , of one hero , he is to carry it through- out in all its confequences . I mentioned above that the story was interefting , as a British story ; and ' tis equally fo , as Macbeth , the hero of the tragedy , is drawn a man , not ...
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... paffions now wholly poffefs him . He grows chiefly jealous of Banquo , because his pofterity had been promised the crown . For Banquo's iffue have I fil'd my mind : For them , the gracious Duncan have I murther d * To make them kings ...
... paffions now wholly poffefs him . He grows chiefly jealous of Banquo , because his pofterity had been promised the crown . For Banquo's iffue have I fil'd my mind : For them , the gracious Duncan have I murther d * To make them kings ...
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