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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... thefe learned commentators to his merit , will guard our author's great monument of human wit from the prefumptuous invafions of our rash critics , and the squibs of our wit- lings ; fo that the bays will for ever flourish - unwithered ...
... thefe learned commentators to his merit , will guard our author's great monument of human wit from the prefumptuous invafions of our rash critics , and the squibs of our wit- lings ; fo that the bays will for ever flourish - unwithered ...
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... Amen ! the other ; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands , Listening their fear . I could not fay , Amen , When they did fay , God bless us ! Thefe Thefe expreffions open to us the internal ftate of the 36 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
... Amen ! the other ; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands , Listening their fear . I could not fay , Amen , When they did fay , God bless us ! Thefe Thefe expreffions open to us the internal ftate of the 36 On DRAMATIC POETRY .
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... thefe home - born Dramas are excel- lently calculated to correct them . The Gre- cian tragedies are so much founded on their mythology as to be very improper on our ftage . The paffion of Phædra and the death of Hippolytus , occafioned ...
... thefe home - born Dramas are excel- lently calculated to correct them . The Gre- cian tragedies are so much founded on their mythology as to be very improper on our ftage . The paffion of Phædra and the death of Hippolytus , occafioned ...
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... thefe diftinguishing marks have the merit of heightening the refem- blance , and animating the portrait . We are apt to confider Shakespear only as a Poet ; but he is certainly one of the greatest moral Philofophers that ever lived ...
... thefe diftinguishing marks have the merit of heightening the refem- blance , and animating the portrait . We are apt to confider Shakespear only as a Poet ; but he is certainly one of the greatest moral Philofophers that ever lived ...
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... thefe times ? They that when Richard liv'd would have him die , Are now become enamour'd on his grave : Thou that throwd'ft duft upon his goodly head , When through proud London he came fighing on After the admired heels of Bolingbroke ...
... thefe times ? They that when Richard liv'd would have him die , Are now become enamour'd on his grave : Thou that throwd'ft duft upon his goodly head , When through proud London he came fighing on After the admired heels of Bolingbroke ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 182 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...