An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireCharles Dilly, 1785 - 316 pages |
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... falls fometimes into the fashionable mode of writing : but this is only by fits ; for many parts of all his plays are written with the most noble , ele- gant , and uncorrupted fimplicity . Such is his merit , that the more just and ...
... falls fometimes into the fashionable mode of writing : but this is only by fits ; for many parts of all his plays are written with the most noble , ele- gant , and uncorrupted fimplicity . Such is his merit , that the more just and ...
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... falls in- tirely fhort of the intention of the Drama : and indeed many Plays are little more than Poems rehearsed ; and the theatrical deco- rations are used rather to improve the Spectacle , than to affift the Drama , of which the Poet ...
... falls in- tirely fhort of the intention of the Drama : and indeed many Plays are little more than Poems rehearsed ; and the theatrical deco- rations are used rather to improve the Spectacle , than to affift the Drama , of which the Poet ...
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... fall . An European monarch would think it as unbecoming him to be styled light of the world , glory of nations , and by the fwelling titles affumed by the Afiatic princes , as to be called the tamer of horfes , or the swift - footed ...
... fall . An European monarch would think it as unbecoming him to be styled light of the world , glory of nations , and by the fwelling titles affumed by the Afiatic princes , as to be called the tamer of horfes , or the swift - footed ...
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... tax you not , you elements , with unkindness , I never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no fubmiffion . Then let fall Your Your horrible pleasure ; here I ftand your slave , 76 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... tax you not , you elements , with unkindness , I never gave you kingdoms , call'd you children , You owe me no fubmiffion . Then let fall Your Your horrible pleasure ; here I ftand your slave , 76 On the HISTORICAL DRAMA .
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... fall . Had I fo lavish of my prefence been , So common - hackney'd in the eyes of men , So ftale and cheap to vulgar company ; Opinion , that did help me to the crown , Had ftill kept loyal to poffeffion , And left me in reputelefs ...
... fall . Had I fo lavish of my prefence been , So common - hackney'd in the eyes of men , So ftale and cheap to vulgar company ; Opinion , that did help me to the crown , Had ftill kept loyal to poffeffion , And left me in reputelefs ...
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Page 248 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 266 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Page 182 - But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 266 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 261 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 262 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 183 - And, — pr'ythee, lead me in : There, take an inventory of all I have ; To the last penny, 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell ! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 262 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 187 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 189 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...