Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... scenes are occupied only by men , who act and 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 ...
... scenes are occupied only by men , who act and 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 ...
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... scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at last the power to move , which constitutes the perfection of dramatick ...
... scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at last the power to move , which constitutes the perfection of dramatick ...
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... scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but he never executes his purpose better , than when he tries to footh by ...
... scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe , without his effeminacy . He endeavours in- deed commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue , but he never executes his purpose better , than when he tries to footh by ...
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... scenes from the inroads of correction . I have adopted the Roman sentiment , that it is more honourable to fave ... scene is changed , or any confiderable time is required to pass . This method would at once quell a thousand absur ...
... scenes from the inroads of correction . I have adopted the Roman sentiment , that it is more honourable to fave ... scene is changed , or any confiderable time is required to pass . This method would at once quell a thousand absur ...
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... scenes ; but it ought not to be imputed to negligence , that , where nothing was necessary , nothing has been ... scene to the last , with utter negli- gence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing , let it ...
... scenes ; but it ought not to be imputed to negligence , that , where nothing was necessary , nothing has been ... scene to the last , with utter negli- gence of all his commentators . When his fancy is once on the wing , let it ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...