An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireH. Hughs, 1772 - 288 pages |
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Page 70
... witch fweet ladies with my words and looks . Oh ! miferable thought ! and more unlikely , Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns . Why , love for wore me in my mother's womb , And , for I fhould not deal in her foft laws , She did ...
... witch fweet ladies with my words and looks . Oh ! miferable thought ! and more unlikely , Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns . Why , love for wore me in my mother's womb , And , for I fhould not deal in her foft laws , She did ...
Page 138
... witches , his ghosts , and his fairies , seem Spirits of health or goblins damn'd ; bring with them airs from heaven , or blasts from bell . His ghofts are fullen , melancholy , and terrible . Every fentence , utter'd by the Witches ...
... witches , his ghosts , and his fairies , seem Spirits of health or goblins damn'd ; bring with them airs from heaven , or blasts from bell . His ghofts are fullen , melancholy , and terrible . Every fentence , utter'd by the Witches ...
Page 140
... Witches holding their fabbath , and faluting paffengers on the blas- ted heath ; ghosts , at the midnight hour , vi- fiting the glimpses of the moon , and whis- pering a bloody fecret , from propriety of place and action , derive a ...
... Witches holding their fabbath , and faluting paffengers on the blas- ted heath ; ghosts , at the midnight hour , vi- fiting the glimpses of the moon , and whis- pering a bloody fecret , from propriety of place and action , derive a ...
Page 141
... witches performing infernal rites ; or any other exertion of the fuppofed powers and qualities of the agent , were easily credited by the vulgar . The genius of Shakespear informed him that poetic fable must rise above the fimple tale ...
... witches performing infernal rites ; or any other exertion of the fuppofed powers and qualities of the agent , were easily credited by the vulgar . The genius of Shakespear informed him that poetic fable must rise above the fimple tale ...
Page 142
... witches in Mac- beth are more folemn and terrible than thofe of the Erichtho of Lucan , or of the Cani- dia of Horace . It may be faid , indeed , that Shakespear had an advantage derived from the more direful character of his national ...
... witches in Mac- beth are more folemn and terrible than thofe of the Erichtho of Lucan , or of the Cani- dia of Horace . It may be faid , indeed , that Shakespear had an advantage derived from the more direful character of his national ...
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