Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... stage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peo- pled by fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the ...
... stage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peo- pled by fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the ...
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... stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady , and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations ...
... stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady , and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations ...
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... stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the unities of time and place he has shewn no regard ; and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand will ...
... stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the unities of time and place he has shewn no regard ; and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand will ...
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... stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delu ... stage a field . The truth is , that the spectators are always in their senses , and know , from the first act ...
... stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies , may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium . Delu ... stage a field . The truth is , that the spectators are always in their senses , and know , from the first act ...
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... stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expresses his wonder , that our author's extravagancies are endured by a nation ...
... stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expresses his wonder , that our author's extravagancies are endured by a nation ...
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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...