An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspeare, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire ...Harding and Wright, 1810 - 296 páginas |
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... Roman school ; so that , afer find- ing them unlike to the dignified characters pre- served in learned museums , they do not deign to enquire , whether they resemble the living per- sons , they were intended to represent . Among these ...
... Roman school ; so that , afer find- ing them unlike to the dignified characters pre- served in learned museums , they do not deign to enquire , whether they resemble the living per- sons , they were intended to represent . Among these ...
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... Romans , who had conquered all other nations , had the best right to prefer their own manners , and despise those of other countries , yet their critics inculcated the necessity of imitating those of the people represented . The French ...
... Romans , who had conquered all other nations , had the best right to prefer their own manners , and despise those of other countries , yet their critics inculcated the necessity of imitating those of the people represented . The French ...
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... Romans ; and he has undoubtedly given them a certain strained elevation of sentiment and expres- sion , which has perhaps a theatrical great- ness : but this is not Roman dignity , nor suitable to the character of republicans ; for , as ...
... Romans ; and he has undoubtedly given them a certain strained elevation of sentiment and expres- sion , which has perhaps a theatrical great- ness : but this is not Roman dignity , nor suitable to the character of republicans ; for , as ...
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... Roman character , though he speaks of it in all the ambiguity of language which prudence could suggest , to one who was thwarting a national opinion * . He talks of un raffine- ment de fierté in the Romans , and asks , if they are of ...
... Roman character , though he speaks of it in all the ambiguity of language which prudence could suggest , to one who was thwarting a national opinion * . He talks of un raffine- ment de fierté in the Romans , and asks , if they are of ...
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... Roman mode , we should think he was mad for killing himself , be- cause Cæsar was likely to become perpetual dictator . It is difficult to sympathize with a man's passions , without adopting , for the time , his opinions , customs , and ...
... Roman mode , we should think he was mad for killing himself , be- cause Cæsar was likely to become perpetual dictator . It is difficult to sympathize with a man's passions , without adopting , for the time , his opinions , customs , and ...
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Página 233 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 240 - Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Página 175 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Página 242 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 228 - 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 live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 246 - 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.
Página 150 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 239 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 241 - 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. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus- is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Página 242 - 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.