Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... some their absurdities ; some the momen- tous vieissitudes of life , and some the lighter occur- rences ; fome the terrors of distress , and fome the gayeties of profperity . Thus rose the two modes of imitation , known by the names ...
... some their absurdities ; some the momen- tous vieissitudes of life , and some the lighter occur- rences ; fome the terrors of distress , and fome the gayeties of profperity . Thus rose the two modes of imitation , known by the names ...
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... some incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the unities of ...
... some incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the unities of ...
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... are only players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation . The lines relate to some action , and an action must be ! i be in fome place ; but the different PREFACE .
... are only players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation . The lines relate to some action , and an action must be ! i be in fome place ; but the different PREFACE .
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... some of Plutarch's lives into plays , when they had been tranflated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sen ...
... some of Plutarch's lives into plays , when they had been tranflated by North . His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by sen ...
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... some testimony of equal force could be oppofed . Some have imagined , that they have discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books translated in his time ...
... some testimony of equal force could be oppofed . Some have imagined , that they have discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books translated in his time ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...