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... force , and knowledge of human nature , for a play so early in his series . There are four fools , or dull persons in it , com- pletely discriminated from each other . The parts in verse are certainly too much loaded with conceits and ...
... force , and knowledge of human nature , for a play so early in his series . There are four fools , or dull persons in it , com- pletely discriminated from each other . The parts in verse are certainly too much loaded with conceits and ...
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... , I know not ; but were all The sweet temptations that deceive us set On this side , and on that side all the wants , These neither should persuade me , nor they force . 186 SECT . 6 . AFTER SHAKESPEARE , TO THE SECT . V. ] 185.
... , I know not ; but were all The sweet temptations that deceive us set On this side , and on that side all the wants , These neither should persuade me , nor they force . 186 SECT . 6 . AFTER SHAKESPEARE , TO THE SECT . V. ] 185.
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Charles Bathurst. of spirit , accompanied with a studied force of self - com- pression . As to dramatic blank verse , there is sometimes the same hardness of break in Tasso that appears in Alfieri . Se Silvia è semplicetta , come pare ...
Charles Bathurst. of spirit , accompanied with a studied force of self - com- pression . As to dramatic blank verse , there is sometimes the same hardness of break in Tasso that appears in Alfieri . Se Silvia è semplicetta , come pare ...
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accented acted beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse blood break broken Cæsar cæsura called character Collier comedy Comedy of Errors comic conceits Coriolanus crown curious Cymbeline death delight doth double endings dramatic dull effect enumerative eyes Falstaff fancy Farewell father feeling Fletcher flowing fourth style friends gentle Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII honour imitation instance Jonson Julius Cæsar kind King lines long speeches look lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Malone Marlow means merely Merry Wives metre mind nature never night observed old play Oldcastle Othello passage perhaps poems poet poetical poetry poor praise printed prose remarkable rhyme Richard Richard II Romeo scene seems Shake Shakespeare soliloquy sometimes Sonnets soul speak spirit sweet syllable taste tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought tongue Tybalt unbroken unto versification weak endings words writer written