An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; with Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire |
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... tragedians were by succeeding critics established as dramatic laws : happily for Shakspeare , Mr. Johnson , whose genius and learning render him superior to a servile awe of pedantic institutions , in his in genious preface to his ...
... tragedians were by succeeding critics established as dramatic laws : happily for Shakspeare , Mr. Johnson , whose genius and learning render him superior to a servile awe of pedantic institutions , in his in genious preface to his ...
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... tragedians , on the contrary , attend not to the nature of the man , whom they represent , but to the decorums of his rank : so that their best tragedies are made ridiculous , by changing the condition of the persons of the drama ...
... tragedians , on the contrary , attend not to the nature of the man , whom they represent , but to the decorums of his rank : so that their best tragedies are made ridiculous , by changing the condition of the persons of the drama ...
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... tragedians not only deviate from thech aracter of the individual repre- sented , but even from the general character of the age and country . Theseus and Achilles are not only unlike to Theseus and Achilles , but they are not Greeks ...
... tragedians not only deviate from thech aracter of the individual repre- sented , but even from the general character of the age and country . Theseus and Achilles are not only unlike to Theseus and Achilles , but they are not Greeks ...
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... tragedians had to chuse their heroes from the works of the poets , who had sung the wars of Troy , and the Argonautic expedi- tion , were still in greater force with our countryman to take his subjects from the history and traditions of ...
... tragedians had to chuse their heroes from the works of the poets , who had sung the wars of Troy , and the Argonautic expedi- tion , were still in greater force with our countryman to take his subjects from the history and traditions of ...
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... tragedians . Every species of poetry has it distinct . duties and obligations . The Drama does not , like the Epic , admit of episode , unne- cessary persons , or things incredible : for , as it is observed by a critic of great ...
... tragedians . Every species of poetry has it distinct . duties and obligations . The Drama does not , like the Epic , admit of episode , unne- cessary persons , or things incredible : for , as it is observed by a critic of great ...
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