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 Seiten |
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... 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 credibility very propitious to the scheme of the Poet . Reddere perfona ...
... 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 credibility very propitious to the scheme of the Poet . Reddere perfona ...
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... ghost of Hamlet is an object of contempt or ridicule . Let us candidly examine these royal shades , as exhibited to us by thofe great masters in the art of exciting pity and terror , Æfchylus and Shakespear ; and impartially decide ...
... ghost of Hamlet is an object of contempt or ridicule . Let us candidly examine these royal shades , as exhibited to us by thofe great masters in the art of exciting pity and terror , Æfchylus and Shakespear ; and impartially decide ...
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... ghost as an instance of the barbarifm of our theatre . The Perfians , of Æfchylus , is certainly one of the most auguft fpectacles that ever was represented on a theatre ; nobly imagined , happily fuf- tained , regularly conducted ...
... ghost as an instance of the barbarifm of our theatre . The Perfians , of Æfchylus , is certainly one of the most auguft fpectacles that ever was represented on a theatre ; nobly imagined , happily fuf- tained , regularly conducted ...
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... ghost's dis- appearing at the cock's crowing , explain why , in reason , a ghost in Perfia , or in Greece , fhould be more fond of milk and honey , than averse , in Denmark , to the crow- ing of a cock . Each Poet adopted , in his work ...
... ghost's dis- appearing at the cock's crowing , explain why , in reason , a ghost in Perfia , or in Greece , fhould be more fond of milk and honey , than averse , in Denmark , to the crow- ing of a cock . Each Poet adopted , in his work ...
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... Ghost . The first propriety in the conduct of this kind of machinery feems to be , that the præternatural perfon be intimately connected with the fable ; that he increase the intereft , add to the folemnity of it , and that his ...
... Ghost . The first propriety in the conduct of this kind of machinery feems to be , that the præternatural perfon be intimately connected with the fable ; that he increase the intereft , add to the folemnity of it , and that his ...
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Seite 247 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Seite 260 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Seite 265 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Seite 265 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Seite 254 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Seite 182 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Seite 177 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Seite 262 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Seite 266 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Seite 183 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...