Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual , : individual ...
... speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual , : individual ...
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... speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occafion : even where the agency is supernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent ...
... speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occafion : even where the agency is supernatural , the dialogue is level with life . Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent ...
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... speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modish innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of speech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for ...
... speak only to be understood , with- out ambition of elegance . The polite are always catching modish innovations , and the learned depart from established forms of speech , in hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for ...
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... minute and flender criticifm of Voltaire : Non usque adeo permifcuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , si voce Metelli Serventur leges , malint a Cæfare tolli . Yet Yet when I speak thus flightly of dramatick rules , PREFACE .
... minute and flender criticifm of Voltaire : Non usque adeo permifcuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , si voce Metelli Serventur leges , malint a Cæfare tolli . Yet Yet when I speak thus flightly of dramatick rules , PREFACE .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. Yet when I speak thus flightly of dramatick rules , I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens. Yet when I speak thus flightly of dramatick rules , I cannot but recollect how much wit and learning may be produced against me ; before fuch authorities I am afraid to stand , not ...
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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...