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... regard to the genuineness of the prefent volumes , be- fides the internal evidence which is vifibly ftamped on the pieces they contain , it chiefly reft on the credit of Mr. Deane Swift , their Editor : a gentleman whofe name and ...
... regard to the genuineness of the prefent volumes , be- fides the internal evidence which is vifibly ftamped on the pieces they contain , it chiefly reft on the credit of Mr. Deane Swift , their Editor : a gentleman whofe name and ...
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... regard to the Dean's defign , -a fecret into which he did not penetrate ? Is it not poffible they were too confcious . that it might not be altogether advifable to entrust him with , or to expofe to the public eye , thofe circumftances ...
... regard to the Dean's defign , -a fecret into which he did not penetrate ? Is it not poffible they were too confcious . that it might not be altogether advifable to entrust him with , or to expofe to the public eye , thofe circumftances ...
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... regard to his views in writing the hiftory of that glorious period . I am perfuaded in my own mind , fays he , that I am doing my duty to God and man , by endeavouring to fet future ages right in their judgment . of that HAPPY REIGN ...
... regard to his views in writing the hiftory of that glorious period . I am perfuaded in my own mind , fays he , that I am doing my duty to God and man , by endeavouring to fet future ages right in their judgment . of that HAPPY REIGN ...
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... regard to our laws refpecting the above offences , they labour under one difadvantage which is common to all laws , that is , the odium attending the character of an informer . But instead of punishing the breach of the law , the butt ...
... regard to our laws refpecting the above offences , they labour under one difadvantage which is common to all laws , that is , the odium attending the character of an informer . But instead of punishing the breach of the law , the butt ...
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... being the confequences of the mecha- nifm , which fecundates the egg , that inclofes the first rudi- ments of the infant . In regard to the communication of ideas between the mother In 28 Letters , on the Force of Imagination.
... being the confequences of the mecha- nifm , which fecundates the egg , that inclofes the first rudi- ments of the infant . In regard to the communication of ideas between the mother In 28 Letters , on the Force of Imagination.
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Página 286 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Página 287 - It is objected that by this change of 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 dramatic poetry.
Página 287 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Página 377 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.
Página 218 - Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action.
Página 287 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Página 286 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Página 285 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Página 289 - He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled ; he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare...
Página 288 - ... how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader.